OII | Wikipedia ‘Edit Wars’: The most hotly contested topics

Published on
31 May 2013

Taha Yasseri says Wikipedia suffers from traditional features of human societies. People argue most on Wikipedia about religion and politics with variations on non-English language sites.

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Dr Taha Yasseri

Former Senior Research Fellow

Taha Yasseri analyses large-scale transactional data to understand human dynamics, collective behaviour, collective intelligence and machine intelligence.

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