№1, 2012
ANALYSIS OF SOCIO-DEMOGRAPHIC PORTRAIT OF WIKI-SPACE
In recent years, virtual encyclopedia Wikipedia has became the largest source of knowledge on the Internet. With increasing growth of encyclopedic articles and the number of wiki -participants in Wiki-space, number of disputes, conflicts, misinformation and propaganda is growing. In the paper the socio-demographic composition of the wiki participants is analyses and their influence on the content of the articles and the information confrontation in the wiki space is studied. (pp. 26-35)
Keywords:Wikipedia, wiki technology, information warfare, Wikimedia Foundation, wiki- community, bots, interwiki
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