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Preferential attachment in the growth of social networks: The internet encyclopedia Wikipedia
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We present an analysis of the statistical properties and growth of the free on-line encyclopedia Wikipedia. By describing topics by vertices and hyperlinks between them as edges, we can represent this encyclopedia as a directed graph. The topological properties of this graph are in close analogy with those of the World Wide Web, despite the very different growth mechanism. In particular, we measure a scale-invariant distribution of the in and out degree and we are able to reproduce these features by means of a simple statistical model. As a major consequence, Wikipedia growth can be described by local rules such as the preferential attachment mechanism, though users, who are responsible of its evolution, can act globally on the network.
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- Capocci, A., Servedio, V. D. P., Colaiori, F., Buriol, L. S., Donato, D., Leonardi, S., & Caldarelli, G.
- Venue
- Physical Review E
- Publisher
- American Physical Society (APS)
- Published
- 2006-09-25
- Volume
- 74
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 036116-036116
- ISSN
- 1539-3755 (ISSN-L)
- 1550-2376
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- W2099674897
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- References
- 28
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- 16.69
- Type
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- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
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