Can Wikipedia Teach Us About Conflict Resolution?
Monday, June 25, 2012 - 19:30
in Mathematics & Economics
Wikipedia's user-generated content has made it the world's largest, and most derided, encyclopedia.Part of the openness model has also led to 'edit wars' when the anonymous "editors" disagree with each other. The dynamics of these conflicts provide an interesting window into collaborative content production and the emergence and resolution of conflicts in an online environment, say researchers led by Taha Yasseri of the Budapest University of Technology and Economics. read more