There and here: patterns of content transclusion in Wikipedia
There and here: patterns of content transclusion in Wikipedia
As large, collaboratively authored hypertexts such as Wikipedia grow so does the requirement both for organisational principles and methods to provide sustainable consistency and to ease the task of contributing editors. Large numbers of (potential) editors are not necessarily a sufficient bulwark against loss of coherence amongst a corpus of many discrete articles. The longitudinal task of curation may benefit from deliberate curatorial roles and techniques.
A potentially beneficial technique for the development and maintenance of hypertext content at scale is hypertext transclusion, by offering controllable re-use of a canonical source. In considering issues of longitudinal support of web collaborative hypertexts, we investigated the current degree and manner of adoption of transclusion facilities by editors of Wikipedia articles. We sampled 20 million articles from ten discrete language wikis within Wikipedia to analyse behaviour both within and across the individual Wikipedia communities.
We show that Wikipedia makes limited, inconsistent of use of transclusion (as at February 2016). Use is localised to subject areas, which differ between sampled languages. A limited number of patterns were observed including: Lists from transclusion, Lists of Lists, Episodic Media Listings, Tangles, Articles as Macros, and Self-Transclusion. We find little indication of deliberate structural maintenance of the hypertext.
Hypertext, Transclusion, Collaboration, Wikis, Wikipedia, Digital Curation
115-124
Association for Computing Machinery
Anderson, Mark
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4 July 2017
Anderson, Mark
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Anderson, Mark, Carr, Leslie and Millard, David
(2017)
There and here: patterns of content transclusion in Wikipedia.
In HT '17: Proceedings of the 28th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media.
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(doi:10.1145/3078714.3078726).
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As large, collaboratively authored hypertexts such as Wikipedia grow so does the requirement both for organisational principles and methods to provide sustainable consistency and to ease the task of contributing editors. Large numbers of (potential) editors are not necessarily a sufficient bulwark against loss of coherence amongst a corpus of many discrete articles. The longitudinal task of curation may benefit from deliberate curatorial roles and techniques.
A potentially beneficial technique for the development and maintenance of hypertext content at scale is hypertext transclusion, by offering controllable re-use of a canonical source. In considering issues of longitudinal support of web collaborative hypertexts, we investigated the current degree and manner of adoption of transclusion facilities by editors of Wikipedia articles. We sampled 20 million articles from ten discrete language wikis within Wikipedia to analyse behaviour both within and across the individual Wikipedia communities.
We show that Wikipedia makes limited, inconsistent of use of transclusion (as at February 2016). Use is localised to subject areas, which differ between sampled languages. A limited number of patterns were observed including: Lists from transclusion, Lists of Lists, Episodic Media Listings, Tangles, Articles as Macros, and Self-Transclusion. We find little indication of deliberate structural maintenance of the hypertext.
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Accepted/In Press date: 31 March 2017
e-pub ahead of print date: 4 July 2017
Published date: 4 July 2017
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The 28th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media, School of Computer Science, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics of the Charles University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic, 2017-07-04 - 2017-07-07
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Hypertext, Transclusion, Collaboration, Wikis, Wikipedia, Digital Curation
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Web & Internet Science, Electronics & Computer Science
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/411879
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