rv you're dumb

WikiSym09
2009

Michael D. Ekstrand and John T. Riedl. 2009. rv you're dumb: Identifying Discarded Work in Wiki Article History. In Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration (WikiSym '09). ACM, pp. 10. Proc. WikiSym '09. DOI 10.1145/1641309.1641317. Acceptance rate: 36%. Selected as Best Paper. Cited 34 times. Cited 27 times.

History Viewer

Abstract

Wiki systems typically display article history as a linear sequence of revisions in chronological order. This representation hides deeper relationships among the revisions, such as which earlier revision provided most of the content for a later revision, or when a revision effectively reverses the changes made by a prior revision. These relationships are valuable in understanding what happened between editors in conflict over article content. We present methods for detecting when a revision discards the work of one or more other revisions, a means of visualizing these relationships in-line with existing history views, and a computational method for detecting discarded work. We show through a series of examples that these tools can aid mediators of wiki content disputes by making salient the structure of the ongoing conflict. Further, the computational tools provide a means of determining whether or not a revision has been accepted by the community of editors surrounding the article.

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