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Wikipedia Collaborative Networks

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Synonyms

Coauthorship networks; Collaborative editing; Edit networks; Online collaboration; Open encyclopedia

Glossary

Administrator:

A user with special rights, including blocking of pages or users

Anonymous edit:

An edit done by an anonymous user; reveals the IP address of the editing user’s computer

Anonymous user:

A user who did not log in (i.e., did not identify himself/herself)

Blocked page/protected page:

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:

A user that (currently) cannot edit pages, often as a response to misbehavior; blockings might be temporary or permanent

Discussion page:

A page dedicated to discuss the form, style, content of an encyclopedic article (not to discuss the topic treated by the article)

Discussion thread:

Subpart of a discussion page representing a conversation related to...

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References

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Institute for Public Management and Governance, WU Vienna University of Economics and Business, Vienna, Austria

    Patrick Kenis

  2. Department of Organization Studies, Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands

    Patrick Kenis

  3. Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Konstanz, 78457, Constance, Germany

    Jürgen Lerner

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Correspondence to Patrick Kenis .

Editor information

Editors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada

    Reda Alhajj

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada

    Jon Rokne

Section Editor information

  1. telecom-paristech, Paris, France

    Talel Abdessalem

  2. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Université du Québec en Outaouais (UQO), Gatineau, QC, Canada

    Rokia Missaoui

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Kenis, P., Lerner, J. (2018). Wikipedia Collaborative Networks. In: Alhajj, R., Rokne, J. (eds) Encyclopedia of Social Network Analysis and Mining. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-7131-2_103

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