Modeling User Reputation in Wikis
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@MISC{Javanmardi_modelinguser,
author = {Sara Javanmardi and Cristina Lopes and Pierre Baldi},
title = {Modeling User Reputation in Wikis},
year = {}
}
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Abstract
Collaborative systems available on the Web allow millions of users to share information through a growing collection of tools and platforms such as wikis, blogs, and shared forums. By their very nature, these systems contain resources and information with different quality levels. The open nature of these systems, however, makes it difficult for users to determine the quality of the available information and the reputation of its providers. Here, we first parse and mine the entire English Wikipedia history pages in order to extract detailed user edit patterns and statistics. We then use these patterns and statistics to derive three computational models of a user’s reputation. Finally, we validate these models using ground–truth Wikipedia data associated with vandals and administrators. When used as a classifier, the best model produces an area under the ROC curve of 0.98. Furthermore, we assess the reputation predictions generated by the models on other users, and show that all three models can be used efficiently for predicting user behavior in Wikipedia.
Keyphrases
user reputation web allow million ground truth wikipedia data share information user behavior different quality level available information reputation prediction open nature roc curve entire english wikipedia history page collaborative system computational model detailed user edit pattern
