Wikipedia 'edit wars' show dynamics of conflict emergence and resolution
Wednesday, June 20, 2012 - 16:00
in Mathematics & Economics
Wikipedia's crowd-sourced content generation has made it the world's largest encyclopedia, but this model also leads to "edit wars" when editors disagree. The dynamics of these conflicts provide an interesting window into collaborative content production and the emergence and resolution of conflicts in an online environment, all of which are explored in a paper published June 20 in the open access journal PLoS ONE.