WikiWarMonitor

WikiWarMonitor is a website dedicated to resolving Wikipedia edit wars. It is operated by a group of researchers from Oxford Internet Institute, Rutgers University, and Central European University.

WikiWarMonitor is part of a project called ICTeCollective (Harnessing ICT- enabled Collective Social Behaviour) and is supported by the European Commission, CORDIS FP7 (Seventh Framework Programme), ICT (Information and communications technology), and FET-Open (Future and Emerging Technologies Open Scheme).

According to CORDIS, the objective of ICT research under the EU's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) (which ICTeCollectiveis/WikiWarMonitor are part of) is "to improve the competitiveness of European industry – as well as to enable Europe to master and shape the future developments of these technologies so that the demands of its society and economy are met".

Findings

The website publishes a list of the top 100 most controversial Wikipedia articles in 13 different languages using a custom algorithm. One of their findings was that the editorial conflicts vary by language and are endless when it comes to polarizing terms such as 'Homosexuality' or individuals such as former U.S. President George W. Bush.

Top 100 controversial articles in English wikipedia

WikiWarMonitor list of top 100 controversial articles in English Wikipedia as of 2013:

• George W. Bush
• Anarchism
• Muhammad
• List of World Wrestling Entertainment employees
• Global warming
• Circumcision
• United States
• Jesus
• Race and intelligence
• Christianity
• Michael Jackson
• Barack Obama
• Islam
• Intelligent design
• Adolf Hitler
• Falun Gong
• European Union
• Abortion
• Kosovo
• Islamophobia
• September 11 attacks
• John Kerry
• Transnistria
• Chiropractic
• Macedonians (ethnic group)
• Homeopathy
• Srebrenica massacre
• Scientology
• Capitalism
• Japan
• Israel and the apartheid analogy
• Israel
• Prem Rawat
• White people
• Catholic Church
• Ann Coulter
• Jehovah's Witnesses
• Hamas
• Jimmy Wales
• Elvis Presley
• Fidel Castro
• Joseph Stalin
• Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy
• John Howard
• Black people
• India
• List of Barney & Friends episodes and videos
• 2006 Lebanon War
• Evolution
• Assyrian people
• Republic of Macedonia
• Wikipedia
• United Kingdom
• Socialism
• Ayn Rand
• Developed country
• Holodomor
• Freemasonry
• Fox News Channel
• Libertarianism
• World War II
• Fascism
• Afghanistan
• Deaths in 2008
• Moldova
• Ron Paul
• Canada
• Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
• Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam
• Iran
• Wii
• Armenian Genocide
• British Isles
• Britney Spears
• Banu Qurayza
• Mexico
• United States and state terrorism
• Lyndon LaRouche
• John Cena
• Nicolaus Copernicus
• Second Amendment to the United States Constitution
• Turkey
• Akatsuki (Naruto)
• 9/11 conspiracy theories
• Super Smash Bros. Brawl
• Atheism
• Ward Churchill
• Islam and antisemitism
• Scotland
• Quebec
• God
• Homosexuality
• International recognition of Kosovo
• Creation Science
• People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
• Ronald Reagan
• Northern Ireland
• The Used
• Northern Cyprus
• Truth

Publications

• Edit wars in Wikipedia R. Sumi, T. Yasseri, A. Rung, A. Kornai, and J. Kertész, IEEE Xplore, IEEE Third International Conference on Social Computing (SocialCom) 9-11 Oct. 724-727, Boston, MA, USA (2011).
• Dynamics of conflicts in Wikipedia T. Yasseri, R. Sumi, A. Rung, A. Kornai, and J. Kertész, PLoS ONE 7(6): e38869 (2012).
• Opinions, Conflicts and Consensus: Modeling Social Dynamics in a Collaborative Environment J. Török, G. Iñiguez, T. Yasseri, M. San Miguel, K. Kaski and J. Kertész, Physical Review Letters 110(8), 088701 (2013).
• The Most Controversial Topics in Wikipedia: A Multilingual and Geographical Analysis T. Yasseri, A. SPoerri, M. Graham, and J. Kertész, Scarecrow Press (2014), (Forthcoming).

External links

• WikiWarMonitor
• ICTeCollective