G-35N0G wiki_vote
Last updated: 12 Mar 2018
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Properties
- Order7115
- Minimum degree1
- Maximum degree1167
- Clique number17
- Connectedfalse
- Arcs103689.0
- File size32800
- Average degree29.0
- Strong components5816
- Weak components24
- Modes1
- Temporalfalse
- Multirelationalfalse
- DirectedDirected
- Realtrue
- Genealogyfalse
- Multiple linesfalse
- Weightedfalse
- Minimum weight1.0
- Maximum weight1.0
- Loopsfalse
The network contains all the Wikipedia voting data from the inception of Wikipedia till January 2008. Nodes in the network represent wikipedia users and a directed edge from node i to node j represents that user i voted on user j.
Background:
Wikipedia is a free encyclopedia written collaboratively by volunteers around the world. A small part of Wikipedia contributors are administrators, who are users with access to additional technical features that aid in maintenance. In order for a user to become an administrator a Request for Adminship (RfA) is issued and the Wikipedia community via a public discussion or a vote decides who to promote to adminship. Using the latest complete dump of Wikipedia page edit history (from January 3 2008) the original authors extracted all administrator elections and vote history data. This gave them nearly 2,800 elections with around 100,000 total votes and about 7,000 users participating in the elections (either casting a vote or being voted on). Out of these 1,200 elections resulted in a successful promotion, while about 1,500 elections did not result in the promotion. About half of the votes in the dataset are by existing admins, while the other half comes from ordinary Wikipedia users.
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History:
Original authors:- J. Leskovec, D. Huttenlocher, J. Kleinberg. Signed Networks in Social Media. CHI 2010.
- J. Leskovec, D. Huttenlocher, J. Kleinberg. Predicting Positive and Negative Links in Online Social Networks. WWW 2010.