Measuring Discussion Quality in Wikipedia : Models and Evaluation

Wikipedia is an Internet-based, user contributed encyclopedia that is collaboratively edited, and utilizes the wiki concept. Discussion page play a fundamental role in Wikipedia as the place for discussion and communication. However, while the growth of the encyclopedia in terms of numbers of articles, edits and active users has slowed down in the last years, activity on discussion pages has kept decreasing. In this study, we focus on communication patterns and debating abilities that accompany collaboration and propose the method to measure discussion quality in Wikipedia. We show the structure model and evaluation by experiments.