Wiki Edit Mini Challenge

VAST 2008 Participant Workshop

Wiki Edit Mini Challenge

AwardsWe did not make any wiki edit awards as the committee decided to give only ONE award to each organization this year.Therefore, awards being considered for the wiki edit mini challenge were subsumed by awards in the Grand Challenge area.

Difficulty levelMore manual efforts here than in other challengesEspecially for the question about violenceClearly we need to partner with text processing researchers

OverallLots of different approachesGood visualizations for finding patterns

The Problem

Question One: What are the factions represented in these edit pages? In other words, describe the individuals or groups that edit the pages with regard to any agendas and goals you hypothesize.

The Data

# (cur) (last) 23:44, 15 January 2007 Alonzo (Talk | contribs) m (100,571 bytes) (?Scientific criticism of Paraiso beliefs – link)# (cur) (last) 16:45, 13 January 2007 DailosTamanca (Talk | contribs) (100,959 bytes) (Undid revision xxxxxxxxx by Moisescorral (talk); i support Gustava's changes)# (cur) (last) 16:24, 10 January 2007 Edemir (Talk | contribs) m (102,458 bytes) (Reverted good faith edits by Dragon; No need to dampen it; the reference points to a blanket opinion of psychiatry and psychology.. using TW)# (cur) (last) 18:05, 7 January 2007 R0MAN0 (Talk | contribs) m (102,179 bytes) (fixed grammar)# (cur) (last) 22:04, 31 December 2006 VictoriaV (Talk | contribs) m (102,094 bytes) (Reverted 1 edit by DailosTamanca; Sorry, but this is not what the ref says. sounds better, true, but it false.. (TW))# (cur) (last) 15:42, 14 December 2006 Salvatora (Talk | contribs) m (115,832 bytes) (Reverted to revision xxxxxxxxx by Honoria; vandalism.)# (cur) (last) 12:59, 31 August 2006 75.179.21.x (Talk) (38 bytes) (?Replaced page with 'is stupid you idiots')

SolutionSolution to this mini challenge was more ambiguous than other mini challenges

Question one:

Basically four factions

Pro, Con, neutrals, bots

But want to eliminate minor players

In the diagram to right which maps undos, reverts, and mentions of vandalism, we see VictoriaV and Sara as representing the Pro- faction. These two do not typically edit each other, but do many edits to others. We also see Edemir, Rm99 and Agustin as representing the Con- faction. They also do not typically edit each other. Edemir, Agustin, and Rm99 substantially edit VictoriaV and vice versa. An argument may be made for Sara being a Neutral. There are several others who may be considered Neutrals as well. BakBot is clearly a vandalism-repairing software robot.

Visualizing Edit Activity

Visualizing Edit Activity: Patterns of Edits Over TimePacific Northwest National Laboratory

Used a database table and applied various filters to find frequent editors and alsocolor coded entries based on identification of who edits who.

Visualizing Edit Activity: Patterns of Edits Over TimePalantir Technologies

National Center for Supercomputing Applications at Urbana-Champaign

Visualizing Edit Activity: Patterns of VandalismU. Washington - PARVAC

This was produced from a spreadsheet

Visualizing Edit Activity: Patterns Based on File ChangesOculus Info, Inc.

File changes over 20,000 bytes stand out showing a deletion and restoration of the entire record. This pattern suggested instances of vandalism where corrections are made by bots

A close view of File Changes under 20,000 bytes reveals patterns indicating editing wars; subsequent offsetting changes in file size by alternating editors.

Visualizing Edit Activity: Patterns of UsagePalantir Technologies Carnegie Mellon University

Visualizing Individual Supporters / Opponents

Visualizing Individual Supporters / Opponents: Revert and Undo PatternsNEVAC Team – The Pennsylvania State University and Drexel University

Vision Systems & Technology, Inc.

Visualizing Individual Supporters / Opponents: Similarity of ContributorsU. Washington PARVAC

Oculus Info, Inc.

Palantir Technologies

Visualizing Factions

Visualizing Factions: Social NetworksBeijing University of Posts and Telecommunications

Inria

Visualizing Factions Oculus Info, Inc.

Vision Systems & Technology, Inc.

Question 2

Is the Paraiso movement involved in violent activities?yes or probably but little evidence

Needed to locate postings that indicated support Mostly manual!

# (cur) (last) 04:28, 19 September 2006 RyogaNica (Talk | contribs) m (97,869 bytes) (?Paraiso and celebrities - references corrected (messed up sequence))# (cur) (last) 03:30, 19 September 2006 BakBOT (Talk | contribs) (97,765 bytes) (Reverting possible vandalism by Special:Contributions/Alphanzo (see here). If this is a mistake, report it. Thanks, BakBOT. (Bot))# (cur) (last) 03:16, 19 September 2006 Alphanzo (Talk | contribs) m (moved Paraiso to GUNNED DOWN SIX DOCTORS AND NURSES IN COLD BLOOD)# (cur) (last) 03:12, 19 September 2006 RyogaNica (Talk | contribs) (97,765 bytes) (?Home Health Care - POV pushing removed. again ridiculous.)# (cur) (last) 03:09, 19 September 2006 Edemir (Talk | contribs) (97,530 bytes) (?Home Health Care - added confrontation of Paraiso members and Dept of Health)# (cur) (last) 03:01, 19 September 2006 Sara (Talk | contribs) (97,765 bytes) (?Home Health Care)# (cur) (last) 02:25, 19 September 2006 RyogaNica (Talk | contribs) (97,966 bytes) (Undid revision 158900020 by Edmir (talk) POV pushing)# (cur) (last) 02:21, 19 September 2006 Edemir (Talk | contribs) (97,565 bytes) (?Home Health Care - Dept of Health intervention refs)# (cur) (last) 01:18, 19 September 2006 RyogaNica (Talk | contribs) m (97,966 bytes) (?Home Health Care - adding to my previuos)# (cur) (last) 01:14, 19 September 2006 RyogaNica (Talk | contribs) (97,877 bytes) (?Home Health Care. Not sure why this hasn't been written before)# (cur) (last) 23:12, 18 September 2006 Edemir (Talk | contribs) (97,533 bytes) (?Home schooling for girls - Whoops, messed up the punctuation. Sorry.)# (cur) (last) 23:11, 18 September 2006 Edemir (Talk | contribs) (97,534 bytes) (?GHome schooling for girl - I think RyogaNica's reference is fine, here. Catalano clearly states girls are to be home schooled, why not reference that?)

Summary

Creative visualization work!!!!!!

But lots of manual work going on.

In many cases the answer was located using other than visual means, then visualizations were created to show this.

That is a good way to start!

Progress now depends on finding ways to discover the answers using the visualizations!

AND we need to identify which views are more effective for specific tasks.