Wikis as Social Networks:Evolution and Dynamics held at ACM SIG KDD SNA Workshop, Las Vegas, NV, August 24, 2008

1. Ralf Klamma, Christian Haasler RWTH Aachen University SIG-KDD SNA Workshop, Henderson, NV August 24, 2008 Wikis as Social Networks: Evolution and Dynamics

5. WikiWatcher – System Design article Article pages, URLS, Revisions Tim Liz Joe 123.45.67.89 Authors RDB Stage 1: SAX-based Parser in PERL Stage 2: Dynamic Analysis and Visualization Wiki Network Data Metadata [[Article]] [[requested]] article [http://…] [[Article2]] Generating XML dump/export files Parsing wiki data/ database transfer Measurement Network Analysis Generating Networks Visualization [[never exists]]

10. Some more Hypotheses in the Study Hypotheses (Author Networks) Result Weakening of the new author rate Approved only in some Wikis Quick creation of author communities around articles Approved Authorial leadership [Reagle07] Approved Anonymous vs. registered author rate Approved only in some Wikis Registered authors connect anonymous authors Approved only in some Wikis Hypotheses (Article Networks) Result Weakening of new article rate Approved only in some Wikis Correlation between article size and #revisions Approved Weakening of article size growth Approved Correlation between article size and #discussions Approved only in some Wikis clustering coefficient of article nodes densifies Approved