Published 2014 | Version v3
Open dataset

Wikipedia Requests for Adminship (with text)

  • 1. Stanford University

Description

Description

The Wikipedia Requests for Adminship (with text) dataset, part of the Stanford Network Analysis Project (SNAP), captures votes crawled from Wikipedia's Request for Adminship (RfA) process from 2003 through May 2013: supporting, neutral, or opposing votes cast by community members on candidates for admin status, each typically accompanied by a short text comment. It induces a directed, signed network in which nodes represent Wikipedia members and edges represent votes, including voter and votee usernames, vote polarity, election outcome, year, timestamp, and comment text, with 11,381 users, 189,004 distinct voter/votee pairs, and 198,275 total votes.

Use the following BibTeX citation for the SNAP network datasets:

@misc{snapnets,
  author       = {Jure Leskovec and Andrej Krevl},
  title        = {{SNAP Datasets}: {Stanford} Large Network Dataset Collection},
  howpublished = {\url{http://snap.stanford.edu/data}},
  month        = jun,
  year         = 2014
}

Details

Resource type Open dataset
Title Wikipedia Requests for Adminship (with text)
Creators
  • West, Robert1 ORCID icon
  • Paskov, Hristo S.1
  • Leskovec, Jure1 ORCID icon
  • Potts, Christopher1 ORCID icon
  • Publisher Stanford Network Analysis Project (SNAP)
    Year of publication 2014
    Dates of collection 2003 – 2013
    External resource http://snap.stanford.edu/data/wiki-RfA.html
    Size 0.01 GB
    Related works
    Is described by
    Conference paper: 10.1162/tacl_a_00184 (DOI)

    Variables

    Name Description
    SRC user name of source, i.e., voter
    TGT user name of target, i.e., the user running for election
    VOT the source's vote on the target (-1 = oppose; 0 = neutral; 1 = support)
    RES the outcome of the election (-1 = target was rejected as admin; 1 = target was accepted)
    YEA the year in which the election was started
    DAT the date and time of this vote
    TXT the comment written by the source, in wiki markup