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Co-authorship networks; Collaborative editing; Edit networks; Online collaboration; Open encyclopedia
Glossary
- Administrator:
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A user with special rights, including blocking of pages or users
- Anonymous Edit:
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An edit done by an anonymous user; reveals the IP address of the editing user's computer
- Anonymous User:
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A user who did not log in (i.e., did not identify himself/herself)
- Blocked Page/Protected Page:
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A page that (currently) does not allow edits, often as a response to frequent vandalism; blockings might be temporary or permanent and they might apply only to anonymous users or to all users except administrators
- Blocked User:
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A user that (currently) cannot edit pages, often as a response to misbehavior; blockings might be temporary or permanent
- Discussion Page:
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A page dedicated to discuss the form, style, and content of an encyclopedic article (not to discuss the topic treated by the article)
- Discussion Thread:
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Subpart of a discussion page representing a conversation related...
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Kenis, P., Lerner, J. (2014). Wikipedia Collaborative Networks. In: Alhajj, R., Rokne, J. (eds) Encyclopedia of Social Network Analysis and Mining. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6170-8_103
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