A Method for Measuring Co-authorship Relationships in MediaWiki

From WikiSym 2008

Libby Veng-Sam Tang, University of Macau; Robert P. Biuk-Aghai, University of Macau; Simon Fong, University of Macau;

Tuesday, September 9, 15:30-17:00 @ Papers Auditorium (B001)

Research Paper

Abstract

Collaborative writing through wikis has become increasingly
popular in recent years. When users contribute to a wiki article
they implicitly establish a co-authorship relationship. Discovering
these relationships can be of value, for example in finding experts
on a given topic. However, it is not trivial to determine the main
co-authors for a given author among the potentially thousands
who have contributed to a given author’s edit history. We have
developed a method and algorithm for calculating a co-authorship
degree for a given pair of authors. We have implemented this
method as an extension for the MediaWiki system and
demonstrate its performance which is satisfactory in the majority
of cases. This paper also presents a method of determining an
expertise group for a chosen topic.


Keywords: Wiki, co-authorship, analysis.

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