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A Social Network Perspective on Mass Collaboration Systems

A Social Network Perspective on Mass Collaboration Systems. Gerald C. Kane and Sam Ransbotham Carroll School of Management. Wikipedia’s Wikiproject Medicine. Considerable research investigating collaboration on WP. Most have treated articles as independent.

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A Social Network Perspective on Mass Collaboration Systems

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  1. A Social Network Perspective on Mass Collaboration Systems Gerald C. Kane and Sam Ransbotham Carroll School of Management

  2. Wikipedia’s Wikiproject Medicine • Considerable research investigating collaboration on WP. • Most have treated articles as independent. • Working on multiple articles, authors transfer information from one article to another. • Examine network of 2M+ revisions to 14.5K medical articles on WP. • Create 14.5K x 14.5K incidence matrix of articles & authors. • Test whether number of authors, degree centrality, eigenvector centrality associated with article quality (Constant et al. 1996). • Good support for our hypotheses. Suggests WP is knowledge network not encyclopedia of independent articles. • Dependent variable (article quality) validated by 4th year medical students. 82% IRR, 90% Agreement with WP.

  3. We want your input • Current research is only first project in research program. • Use 3-month moving window to take advantage of longitudinal data. • Panel or cumulative network? Effect on eig. centrality measure? • Project 2: Does collaboration lead to quality, or does quality lead to collaboration? • Simultaneous equation panel model to evaluate causation. • Project 3: How does the network change over time? • Curve-fit network features over time to identify archetypical evolution patterns. • Ideas on how to address these or other projects are welcome! • Methodologically/ econometrically/ computationally

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