[Air-l] naturally occuring Wiki conflicts

[Mark Bell]

The "patterns of cooperation and conflict on a micro level" Dr. Wellman
mention are also visable when you look at articles using the IBM program,
history flow.

On 3/26/07, Barry Wellman <wellman at chass.utoronto.ca> wrote:
>
> For the heck of it, I've been watching 30-50 Wikipedia sites for the past
> 6 months. There are many conflicts on there, most of which get resolved.
>
> To find them, pick conflict-filled entries. Here are some I've noticed:
> Iran, Conrad Black, Jimmy Wales, Larry Sanger, Stephane Dion, Shootings at
> Kent State, social network (where people keep wanting to sell their
> software); Anna Nicole Smith.
>
> Yup, I have eclectic tastes, plus to some extent I've been prone to
> watching sites where the action is. (This is a totally convenience
> sample.)
>
> I'm not mounting any project on this yet, but all the other studies of
> Wikip (in my limited experience) that I know about are macro-statistical
> ones. It's pretty easy to see patterns of cooperation and conflict on a
> micro level -- go for it.
>
> Barry Wellman
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