Enhancing MediaWiki Talk pages with Semantics for Better Coordination - A Proposal

Behind the Article: Recognizing Dialog Acts in Wikipedia Talk Pages

In this paper, we propose an annotation schema for the discourse analysis of Wikipedia Talk pages aimed at the coordination efforts for article improvement. We apply the annotation schema to a corpus of 100 Talk pages from the Simple English Wikipedia and make the resulting dataset freely available for download1. Furthermore, we perform automatic dialog act classification on Wikipedia discussio...

A Lightly Supervised Approach to Role Identification in Wikipedia Talk Page Discussions

In this paper we describe an application of a lightly supervised Role Identification Model (RIM) to the analysis of coordination in Wikipedia talk page discussions. Our goal is to understand the substance of important coordination roles that predict quality of the Wikipedia pages where the discussions take place. Using the model as a lens, we present an analysis of four important coordination r...

Stigmergic Coordination in Wikipedia

We examine a novel approach to coordination, namely stigmergic coordination, that is, coordination mediated by changes to a shared work product. Stigmergy stands in contrast to the two coordination approaches identified in the existing literature on coordination, explicit coordination, based on direct communication through discussion page or user talk pages, and implicit coordination, based on ...

A Content Analysis: How Wikipedia Talk Pages Are Used

The influence of network structures of Wikipedia discussion pages on the efficiency of WikiProjects

As a platform for discussion and communication, talk pages play an essential role in Wikipedia to facilitate coordination, sharing of information and knowledge resources among Wikipedians. In this work we explore the influence of network structures of these pages on the efficiency of WikiProjects. Project efficiency is measured as the amount of work done by project members in a quarter. The stu...