Studies on Editing Patterns in Large-scale Wikis

Boulain, Philip; Shadbolt, Nigel; Gibbins, Nicholas

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“…Wikipedia's MediaWiki software does support transclusion (see Section 3), but Wiki studies appear to ignore the implied linkage created by transclusion. Despite some analysis as to the functional nature of edits made in Wikipedia [5], no study has been made of the nature of editing as relating speci cally to transclusional (re-)use of content. Built-in Wikipedia queries ('special' pages 1 ) and API methods can give some indication of transclusion use, but the reports are opaque and do not lend themselves to further exploration, especially as to how or why editors implemented their ideas.…”

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There and Here

Anderson

Carr

Millard

2017

Proceedings of the 28th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media

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As large, collaboratively authored hypertexts such as Wikipedia grow so does the requirement both for organisational principles and methods to provide sustainable consistency and to ease the task of contributing editors. Large numbers of (potential) editors are not necessarily a su cient bulwark against loss of coherence amongst a corpus of many discrete articles. The longitudinal task of curation may bene t from deliberate curatorial roles and techniques.A potentially bene cial technique for the development and maintenance of hypertext content at scale is hypertext transclusion, by o ering controllable re-use of a canonical source. In considering issues of longitudinal support of web collaborative hypertexts, we investigated the current degree and manner of adoption of transclusion facilities by editors of Wikipedia articles. We sampled 20 million articles from ten discrete language wikis within Wikipedia to analyse behaviour both within and across the individual Wikipedia communities.We show that Wikipedia (as at February 2016) makes limited, inconsistent of use of transclusion. Use is localised to subject areas, which di er between sampled languages. A limited number of patterns were observed including: Lists from transclusion, Lists of Lists, Episodic Media Listings, Tangles, Articles as Macros, and Self-Transclusion. We nd little indication of deliberate structural maintenance of the hypertext.

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There and Here

Anderson

Carr

Millard

2017

Proceedings of the 28th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media

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A Model for Open Semantic Hyperwikis

Boulain

Shadbolt

Gibbins

2010

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Wiki systems have developed over the past years as lightweight, community-editable, web-based hypertext systems. With the emergence of semantic wikis such as Semantic MediaWiki [6], these collections of interlinked documents have also gained a dual role as ad-hoc RDF [7] graphs. However, their roots lie in the limited hypertext capabilities of the World Wide Web [1]: embedded links, without support for features like composite objects or transclusion. Collaborative editing on wikis has been hampered by redundancy; much of the effort spent on Wikipedia is used keeping content synchronised and organised.[3] We have developed a model for a system, which we have prototyped and are evaluating, which reintroduces ideas from the field of hypertext to help alleviate this burden. In this paper, we present a model for what we term an 'open semantic hyperwiki' system, drawing from both past hypermedia models, and the informal model of modern semantic wiki systems. An 'open semantic hyperwiki' is a reformulation of the popular semantic wiki technology in terms of the long-standing field of hypermedia, which then highlights and resolves the omissions of hypermedia technology made by the World Wide Web and the applications built around its ideas. In particular, our model supports first-class linking, where links are managed separately from nodes. This is then enhanced by the system's ability to embed links into other nodes and separate them out again, allowing for a user editing experience similiar to HTML-style embedded links, while still gaining the advantages of separate links. We add to this transclusion, which allows for content sharing by including the content of one node into another, and edit-time transclusion, which allows users to edit pages containing shared content without the need to follow a sequence of indirections to find the actual text they wish to modify. Our model supports more advanced linking mechanisms, such as generic links, which allow words in the wiki to be used as link endpoints. The development of this model has been driven by our prior experimental work on the limitations of existing wikis and user interaction.We have produced a prototype implementation which provides first-class links, transclusion, and generic links.

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Studies on Editing Patterns in Large-scale Wikis

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A Model for Open Semantic Hyperwikis

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