Publication Type

Conference Proceeding Article

Version

publishedVersion

Publication Date

2-2008

Abstract

Wikipedia 1 is a very large and successful Web 2.0 example. As the number of Wikipedia articles and contributors grows at a very fast pace, there are also increasing disputes occurring among the contributors. Disputes often happen in articles with controversial content. They also occur frequently among contributors who are "aggressive" or controversial in their personalities. In this paper, we aim to identify controversial articles in Wikipedia. We propose three models, namely the Basic model and two Controversy Rank (CR) models. These models draw clues from collaboration and edit history instead of interpreting the actual articles or edited content. While the Basic model only considers the amount of disputes within an article, the two Controversy Rank models extend the former by considering the relationships between articles and contributors. We also derived enhanced versions of these models by considering the age of articles. Our experiments on a collection of 19,456 Wikipedia articles shows that the Controversy Rank models can more effectively determine controversial articles compared to the Basic and other baseline models

Discipline

Databases and Information Systems | Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing

Publication

WSDM '08: Proceedings of the 2008 International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining

First Page

171

Last Page

182

ISBN

9781595939272

Identifier

10.1145/1341531.1341556

Publisher

ACM

City or Country

Stanford

Additional URL

http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1341531.1341556

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