Societal Controversies in Wikipedia ArticlesErik Borra, Esther Weltevrede, Andreas Kaltenbrunner,

Michele Mauri, David Laniado, Richard Rogers, Paolo Ciuccarelli, Giovanni Magni, Tommaso Venturini

david.laniado@barcelonamedia.org

www.contropedia.net

Wikipedia

● largest repository of human knowledge

● anyone may edit it

● conditions and reflects public opinion

● article on global warming (image)

<2MB image of Global Warming overlay

Controversiality measure

● count edits to sentences including a wiki link

● substantive, disagreeing edits○ no vandalism edits○ only consider deletions from sentences

● language agnostic approach

<2MB image of Global Warming dashboard

Contropedia can:● show what was most disputed in an article,

when and why

● increase transparency in Wikipedia

● lower barriers to participation

● foster critical digital literacy

Work in progress● integrating talk pages

● beyond wiki links: templates, references, images

● edit networks, editor camps

● cross-language visualizations (comparison)

● networks of articles

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