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Creating, destroying, and restoring value in wikipedia
Abstract
Wikipedia’s brilliance and curse is that any user can edit any of the encyclopedia entries. We introduce the notion of the impact of an edit, measured by the number of times the edited version is viewed. Using several datasets, including recent logs of all article views, we show that frequent editors dominate what people see when they visit Wikipedia, and that this domination is increasing. Similarly, using the same impact measure, we show that the probability of a typical article view being damaged is small but increasing, and we present empirically grounded classes of damage. Finally, we make policy recommendations for Wikipedia and other wikis in light of these findings.
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“With hundreds of millions of synapses in the fly brain 30, automated synaptic partner identification is required for connectivity analysis at scale.”
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“Several methods have been proposed for synapse detection in large EM datasets 30–35 but only a few solved the problem of partner assignments in polyadic synapses in the fly 30,34,36,37.”
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“We randomly collected 999 synapses from a dataset of predicted synapses 30. One expert evaluated all synapses as true positive (615), false positive (285) or ambiguous (99) synapses.”
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- Authors
- Priedhorsky, R., Chen, J., Lam, S. (. K., Panciera, K., Terveen, L., & Riedl, J.
- Venue
- Proceedings of the 2007 international ACM conference on Conference on supporting group work - GROUP '07
- Publisher
- ACM Press
- Published
- 2007
- Pages
- 259
- Cited by
- 218
- References
- 15
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