OII | Wikipedia’s most controversial pages include Jesus and George W. Bush

Published on
5 Jun 2013

Work by Taha Yasseri and colleagues on 10 different language Wikipedia sites showed that Jesus was the one controversial subject, as measured by editor amendments that came across the board.

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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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