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Activity Number: 370
Type: Invited
Date/Time: Wednesday, August 6, 2008 : 10:30 AM to 12:20 PM
Sponsor: Section on Statistical Computing
Abstract - #300094
Title: Quality Assurance in Information Submissions: The Case of Wikipedia
Author(s): Robert Warren*+
Companies: University of Waterloo
Address: , Waterloo, ON, N2L3G1, Canada
Keywords: Social Network Analysis ; Quality Control ; Wikipedia ; Performance Metrics
Abstract:

Wikipedia makes use of a distributed editing system to ensure quality within the published articles. This talk is an performance analysis of the quality control processes built into Wikipedia, with special attention paid to the antagonist behavior observed of some one-off editors.

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