Wikis in Organizations

We’ve been deep into network analysis with our wikis. We’ve turned and twisted hyperlink networks, coauthorship networks, and collaboration networks. We’ve put every measure and every methods out of the network analysis toolbox to good use.

But now we have a new girlfriend, and her name is SoNIA.

She puts our wikis back in the flash (literally, and no typo). Check out the below network.

Each node represents a user in a wiki, and each directed edge represents a response from one user to another on at least one page they both have been working on. The responses are timed within a weekly frame, which you can follow on the top left corner where slice indicates the respective week. Moreover, nodes are colored according to the following schema:

• White. User is not yet registered in the wiki (strictly speaking, she doesn’t exist but yet, at least not in the network)
• Orange. User just registered but hasn’t edited any pages, so far
• Green. User is actively editing pages
• Red. User is inactive, not editing pages anymore

Don’t you wish you had a girlfriend this pretty?

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