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SocialWiki: Bring order to wiki systems with social context

  • Haifeng Zhao
  • , Shaozhi Ye
  • , Prantik Bhattacharyya
  • , Jeff Rowe
  • , Ken Gribble
  • , S. Felix Wu

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Abstract

A huge amount of administrative effort is required for large wiki systems to produce and maintain high quality pages with existing naive access control policies. This paper introduces SocialWiki, a prototype wiki system which leverages the power of social networks to automatically manage reputation and trust for wiki users based on the content they contribute and the ratings they receive. SocialWiki also utilizes interests to facilitate collaborative editing. Although a wiki page is visible to everyone, it can only be edited by a group of users who share similar interests and have a certain level of trust with each other. The editing privilege is circulated among these users to prevent/reduce vandalisms and spams, and to encourage user participation by adding social context to the revision process of a wiki page. By presenting the design and implementation of this proof-of-concept system, we show that social context can be used to build an efficient, self-adaptive and robust collaborative editing system.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationSocial Informatics - Second International Conference, SocInfo 2010, Proceedings
Pages232-247
Number of pages16
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2010
Event2nd International Conference on Social Informatics, SocInfo 2010 - Laxenburg, Austria
Duration: 2010 Oct 272010 Oct 29

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume6430 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference2nd International Conference on Social Informatics, SocInfo 2010
Country/TerritoryAustria
CityLaxenburg
Period10-10-2710-10-29

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • General Computer Science

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