Related Analysis on Wikipedia B treat Wikipedia as complex networks where the articles represent the nodes, and hyperlinks represent links Degree distribution Reciprocity and feedback loops Motifs
6 Related Analysis on Wikipedia ❖ Treat Wikipedia as complex networks, where the articles represent the nodes, and hyperlinks represent links. Degree distribution Reciprocity and feedback loops Motifs
Degree distribution o Degree: measure the number of articles that link into or out of eanings of degree Two articles sharing a link reflect some kind of relations in term of their contents Articles with high degree are more likely to be common knowledge
7 Degree distribution • Degree: measure the number of articles that link into or out of • Meanings of degree: – Two articles sharing a link reflect some kind of relations in term of their contents; – Articles with high degree are more likely to be common knowledge;
Observations: Scale-free 10 10 The in-degree distribution of Japan The out-degree distribution of Wikipedia.(adopted from Fig. 3 in Japan Wikipedia.(adopted from f11) Fig 3 in ref[ 1].) Reference [1V. Zlatic, M. Bozicevic, H Stefancic, and M. Domazet, Wikipedias: Collaborative Web-based Encyclopedias as Complex Networks", Physical Review E 74, 016615, 2006.8
8 Observations: Scale-free The in-degree distribution of Japan Wikipedia. (adopted from Fig. 3 in ref[1].) Reference [1] V. Zlatic, M. Bozicevic, H. Stefancic, and M. Domazet, “Wikipedias: Collaborative Web-based Encyclopedias as Complex Networks”, Physical Review E 74, 016615, 2006. The out-degree distribution of Japan Wikipedia. (adopted from Fig. 3 in ref[1].)