Published 2010 | Version v2
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Wikipedia vote network

Creators

  • 1. Stanford University
  • 2. Cornell University

Description

Description

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) we extracted all administrator elections and vote history data. This gave us 2,794 elections with 103,663 total votes and 7,066 users participating in the elections (either casting a vote or being voted on). Out of these 1,235 elections resulted in a successful promotion, while 1,559 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. 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.

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Variables

Name Description
E is election succesful (1) or not (0)
T time election was closed
U user id (and username) of editor that is being considered for promotion
N user id (and username) of the nominator
V <vote(1:support, 0:neutral, -1:oppose)> <user_id> <time> <username>

Details

Resource type Open dataset
Title Wikipedia vote network
Creators
  • Leskovec, Jure1
  • Huttenlocher, Daniel2
  • Kleinberg, Jon2
    • Research Fields Business Administration Economics Psychology Sociology Political Science Economic & Social History Communication Sciences Educational Research Other
    Size 0.01 GB
    License(s) Cite paper if used
    External Resource http://snap.stanford.edu/data/wiki-Vote.html
    Companies Wikipedia
    Dates of collection January 3, 2008