Wikis have their seeds in the easy collaborative editing and maintenance of web pages. This was picked up by tremendously successful public projects such as the online encyclopedia Wikipedia. Creating, modifying and maintaining of wiki articles implies social structures and dependencies between wiki authors and wiki articles themselves. The general challenge of this work is to consider these structures as dynamic evolving networks and to point out prominent behaviors in large wiki-based networks. We present an environment capable of handling data management, measurement and visualization issues for the dynamic network analysis of publicly available wiki data.

Authors: Ralf Klamma, Christian Haasler
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Categories: E.1, G.2.2, H.3.1, H.3.3, H.3.7, H.4, i-KNOW 2008
Tags: data management, Dynamic network analysis, measurement, social networks, visualization, wiki, Wikipedia