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Societal Controversies in Wikipedia ArticlesErik Borra, Esther Weltevrede, Andreas Kaltenbrunner,
Michele Mauri, David Laniado, Richard Rogers, Paolo Ciuccarelli, Giovanni Magni, Tommaso Venturini
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Wikipedia
● largest repository of human knowledge
● anyone may edit it
● conditions and reflects public opinion
● article on global warming (image)
<2MB image of Global Warming overlay
Controversiality measure
● count edits to sentences including a wiki link
● substantive, disagreeing edits○ no vandalism edits○ only consider deletions from sentences
● language agnostic approach
<2MB image of Global Warming dashboard
Contropedia can:● show what was most disputed in an article,
when and why
● increase transparency in Wikipedia
● lower barriers to participation
● foster critical digital literacy
Work in progress● integrating talk pages
● beyond wiki links: templates, references, images
● edit networks, editor camps
● cross-language visualizations (comparison)
● networks of articles
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