The "patterns of cooperation and conflict on a micro level" Dr. Wellman mention are also visable when you look at articles using the IBM program, history flow. On 3/26/07, Barry Wellman <wellman@chass.utoronto.ca> wrote:
For the heck of it, I've been watching 30-50 Wikipedia sites for the past 6 months. There are many conflicts on there, most of which get resolved.
To find them, pick conflict-filled entries. Here are some I've noticed: Iran, Conrad Black, Jimmy Wales, Larry Sanger, Stephane Dion, Shootings at Kent State, social network (where people keep wanting to sell their software); Anna Nicole Smith.
Yup, I have eclectic tastes, plus to some extent I've been prone to watching sites where the action is. (This is a totally convenience sample.)
I'm not mounting any project on this yet, but all the other studies of Wikip (in my limited experience) that I know about are macro-statistical ones. It's pretty easy to see patterns of cooperation and conflict on a micro level -- go for it.
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