WhoVIS: Visualizing editor interactions and dynamics in collaborative writing over time

Fabian Flöck, Maribel Acosta

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Abstract

The visualization of editor interaction dynamics and provenance of content in revisioned, collaboratively written documents has the potential to allow for more transparency and intuitive understanding of the intricate mechanisms inherent to collective content production. Although approaches exist to build editor interactions from individual word changes inWikipedia articles, they do not allow to inquire into individual interactions, and have yet to be implemented as usable end-user tools. We thus present whoVIS, a web tool to mine and visualize editor interactions inWikipedia over time. who- VIS integrates novel features with existing methods, tailoring them to the use case of understanding intra-article disagreement between editors. Using real Wikipedia examples, our system demonstrates the combination of various visualization techniques to identify different social dynamics and explore the evolution of an article that would be particularly hard for end-users to investigate otherwise.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationWWW 2015 Companion - Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on World Wide Web
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery, Inc
Pages191-194
Number of pages4
ISBN (Electronic)9781450334730
DOIs
StatePublished - 18 May 2015
Externally publishedYes
Event24th International Conference on World Wide Web, WWW 2015 - Florence, Italy
Duration: 18 May 201522 May 2015

Publication series

NameWWW 2015 Companion - Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on World Wide Web

Conference

Conference24th International Conference on World Wide Web, WWW 2015
Country/TerritoryItaly
CityFlorence
Period18/05/1522/05/15

Keywords

  • Graph models
  • Interface
  • Online Collaboration
  • Social Dynamics
  • Social Networks
  • Visualization
  • Wikipedia

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