TY - JOUR
T1 - A simple model of edit activity in Wikipedia
AU - Shimada, Takashi
AU - Ogushi, Fumiko
AU - Török, János
AU - Kertész, János
AU - Kaski, Kimmo
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2023 Elsevier B.V.
PY - 2023/9/27
Y1 - 2023/9/27
N2 - A simple dynamical model of collective edit activity of Wikipedia articles and their content evolution is introduced. Based on the recent empirical findings, each editor in the model is characterized by an ability to make content edit, i.e., improving the article by adding content and a tendency to make maintenance edit, i.e., dealing with formal aspects and maintaining the edit flow. In addition, each article is characterized by a level of maturity as compared to a potential quality needed to comprehensively cover its topic. This model is found to reproduce the basic structure of the bipartite network between editors and articles of Wikipedia. Furthermore, the relation between the model parameters of editors and articles and the metrics of those calculated from the emergent network turns out to be robust, i.e. depending only on the rate of the introduction of new articles to the editing activity. This results provides us a way to relate observations in the real data to the hidden characteristics of editors and articles. For the nestedness of the networks, systems with weighted parameter distribution gives better match to the empirical one. This suggests the importance of high-dimensional nature of the ability of editors and quality of articles in the real system.
AB - A simple dynamical model of collective edit activity of Wikipedia articles and their content evolution is introduced. Based on the recent empirical findings, each editor in the model is characterized by an ability to make content edit, i.e., improving the article by adding content and a tendency to make maintenance edit, i.e., dealing with formal aspects and maintaining the edit flow. In addition, each article is characterized by a level of maturity as compared to a potential quality needed to comprehensively cover its topic. This model is found to reproduce the basic structure of the bipartite network between editors and articles of Wikipedia. Furthermore, the relation between the model parameters of editors and articles and the metrics of those calculated from the emergent network turns out to be robust, i.e. depending only on the rate of the introduction of new articles to the editing activity. This results provides us a way to relate observations in the real data to the hidden characteristics of editors and articles. For the nestedness of the networks, systems with weighted parameter distribution gives better match to the empirical one. This suggests the importance of high-dimensional nature of the ability of editors and quality of articles in the real system.
KW - Modeling
KW - Wikipedia
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85173089129&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.physa.2023.129253
DO - 10.1016/j.physa.2023.129253
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85173089129
SN - 0378-4371
VL - 630
JO - Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications
JF - Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications
M1 - 129253
ER -