Tag: Wikipedia

14 June 2017

Authors: Taha Yasseri

  Wikipedia uses editing bots to clean articles: but what happens when their interactions go bad? Image of “Nomade”, a sculpture in downtown Des Moines by Jason Mrachina (Flickr ...
Read More Our knowledge of how automated agents interact is rather poor (and that could be a problem)

30 March 2017

Authors: Taha Yasseri

Collaboration is among the most fundamental social behaviours.  The Internet and particularly the Web have been originally developed to foster large scale collaboration among scientists and technicians. The more ...
Read More The interplay between extremism and communication in a collaborative project

26 February 2017

Authors: Taha Yasseri

Our new paper titled “Even good bots fight: The case of Wikipedia” has finally appeared on PLOS One. There are two things that I particularly find worth-highlighting about this work. ...
Read More Even good bots fight and a typology of Internet bots

6 December 2016

Authors: Taha Yasseri

2016 presidential candidate Donald Trump in a residential backyard near Jordan Creek Parkway and Cody Drive in West Des Moines, Iowa, with lights and security cameras. Image by Tony ...
Read More Can we predict electoral outcomes from Wikipedia traffic?

5 December 2016

Authors: Milena Tsvetkova

In recent years, there has been a huge increase in the number of bots online, varying from web crawlers for search engines, to chatbots for online customer service, spambots ...
Read More Even Good Bots Fight

4 November 2016

Authors: Milena Tsvetkova

Our study on disagreement in Wikipedia was just published in Scientific Reports (impact factor 5.2). In this study, we find that disagreement and conflict in Wikipedia follow specific patterns. ...
Read More New Paper: Personal clashes and Status in Wikipedia Edit Wars

4 November 2016

Authors: Taha Yasseri

Network of all reverts done in the English language Wikipedia within one day (January 15, 2010). Read the full article for details. While network science has significantly advanced our ...
Read More Edit wars! Examining networks of negative social interaction

2 November 2016

Authors: Taha Yasseri

This has become a common knowledge that certain lives matter more, when it comes to media coverage and public attention to natural or manmade disasters. Among many papers and articles ...
Read More Biases in Online Attention; Whose life matters more

28 September 2016

Authors: Mark Graham

Wikipedia has a geography. This is something that my colleagues and I have explored previously in a variety of scholarship. For a new book on ‘Open Development’, my colleague Stefano ...
Read More The geography of Wikipedia edits

20 June 2016

Authors: Taha Yasseri

Jonathan and I recently published a paper titled “Wikipedia traffic data and electoral prediction: towards theoretically informed models“ in EPJ Data Science. In this article we examine the possibility ...
Read More Understanding voters’ information seeking behaiviour

12 May 2016

Authors: Mark Graham

In order to understand how the city’s contested political contexts are embedded into its digital layers, we traced how the city is represented on online platforms that house facts ...
Read More Semantic Cities: Coded Geopolitics and the Rise of the Semantic Web.

10 November 2015

Authors: Mark Graham

I recently had the opportunity to give a Kapuścinski public lecture titled “Uneven Geographies of Power and Participation in the Internet Era.” You can watch the whole lecture at the link ...
Read More Kapuścinski Public Lecture – “Uneven Geographies of Power and Participation in the Internet Era”

5 November 2015

Authors: Heather Ford

Google results from a search for ‘Jerusalem’, 5 Nov. 2011 If you Google the city ‘Jerusalem’ today, you will most likely see something like the screenshot above. In addition ...
Read More Semantic Cities

28 October 2015

Authors: Mark Graham

I’m delighted to be giving a Kapuściński Development Lecture on Nov 9. The talk will be titled ‘E-society and E-citizens: from Technology Transfer to Human Empowerment and Development’ You can ...
Read More “E-society and E-citizens: from Technology Transfer to Human Empowerment and Development” – Kapuściński Development Lecture

30 September 2015

Authors: Mark Graham

The Datasthesia team recently turned one of our digital maps into a material printed object. They also kindly shared their files so that we could replicate the process with ...
Read More 3D printed internet geographies

29 September 2015

Authors: Mark Graham

The latest issue of New Geographies is now out, and contains an exciting collection of papers: My contribution to the issue is titled ‘Information Geographies and Geographies of Information.’ It is ...
Read More New Paper: Information Geographies and Geographies of Information

27 September 2015

Authors: Mark Graham

Our research into biases in voice and power in Wikipedia has recently been published in the Annals of the Association of American Geographers. What surprised us was the vast ...
Read More Our Wikipedia Research in the News

7 September 2015

Authors: Mark Graham

Network of Wikipedia edits between world regions, normalised for each target region. The edges are coloured according to the source region. Percentages denote self-edits (not depicted). I am very ...
Read More New publication – Digital Divisions of Labor and Informational Magnetism: Mapping Participation in Wikipedia

17 August 2015

Authors: Mark Graham

We very recently published a paper that brings together a lot of the internet mapping work that we’ve been doing: Graham, M., S. De Sabbata, and M. A. Zook. ...
Read More “Towards a study of information geographies” A full list of our maps