Publication: WikiChron networks: una herramienta para el análisis de redes en wikis
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2019
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La producción colaborativa de bienes comunes ha marcado el desarrollo de grandes proyectos como puedan ser Wikipedia o Linux. Estos proyectos se sustentan sobre grupos de personas de diferente índole, que trabajan cooperativamente sin jerarquías marcadas. Esto hace que el análisis de redes complejas sea perfecto para abordar el problema. Pero debido a que se conforman comunidades dinámicas y constantemente cambiantes, debemos tener en cuenta como eje central del análisis la variable temporal.
En este trabajo proponemos una herramienta web, con la que facilitar el estudio y seguimiento de las comunidades que surgen y se conforman alrededor de wikis. La herramienta dispone de tres visualizaciones diferentes, en función del espacio de interacción seleccionado (artículos, páginas de talk y páginas de usuario), además de presentar métricas que resumen comportamientos y niveles de participación de los usuarios dentro de la comunidad. De esta manera, se puede tener diferentes perspectivas de la comunidad en espacios de interacción como en el plano temporal.
Por último, ilustramos el uso de WikiChron networks con un caso de estudio para mostrar las virtudes que pensamos que ofrece la herramienta.
Commons-based peer production communities can be analyzed with the help of social network analysis. However, they are fluid organizations that continually change over time and consequently the time dimension needs to be considered in the analysis as a central variable. In this work we propose a webtool, WikiChron networks, to facilitate the study of the evolution of wiki communities through time. The tool displays three different community networks depending on the space considered for the interactions: articles, talk pages of articles or talk pages of users. The joint consideration of these three networks offer complementary views of the same community, while the time dimension makes possible to observe how the network structures changes through time and the changes in the played network role experimented by some editors. We illustrate the usefulness of our tool analyzing the evolution of a wiki community in different moments and showing network structures that can be seen in other wiki communities.
Commons-based peer production communities can be analyzed with the help of social network analysis. However, they are fluid organizations that continually change over time and consequently the time dimension needs to be considered in the analysis as a central variable. In this work we propose a webtool, WikiChron networks, to facilitate the study of the evolution of wiki communities through time. The tool displays three different community networks depending on the space considered for the interactions: articles, talk pages of articles or talk pages of users. The joint consideration of these three networks offer complementary views of the same community, while the time dimension makes possible to observe how the network structures changes through time and the changes in the played network role experimented by some editors. We illustrate the usefulness of our tool analyzing the evolution of a wiki community in different moments and showing network structures that can be seen in other wiki communities.
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Trabajo de Fin de Grado, Universidad Complutense, Facultad de Informática, Departamento de Ingeniería del Software e Inteligencia Artificial, Curso 2018/2019