@article {Korfiatis:1 May 2006:1468-4527:252,
	author = "Korfiatis, Nikolaos Th.",
	author = "Poulos, Marios",
	author = "Bokos, George",
	title = "Evaluating authoritative sources using social networks: an insight from Wikipedia",
	journal = "Online Information Review",
	volume = "30",
	year = "1 May 2006",
	abstract = "<B>Purpose</B> ? The purpose of this paper is to present an approach to evaluating contributions in collaborative authoring environments, and in particular, Wikis using social network measures. <B>Design/methodology/approach</B> ? A social network model for Wikipedia has been constructed, and metrics of importance such as centrality have been defined. Data has been gathered from articles belonging to the same topic using a web crawler, in order to evaluate the outcome of the social network measures in the articles. <B>Findings</B> ? Finds that the question of the reliability regarding Wikipedia content is a challenging one and as Wikipedia grows, the problem becomes more demanding, especially for topics with controversial views such as politics or history. <B>Practical implications</B> ? It is believed that the approach presented here could be used to improve the authoritativeness of content found in Wikipedia and similar sources. <B>Originality/value</B> ? This work tries to develop a network approach to the evaluation of Wiki contributions, and approaches the problem of quality Wikipedia content from a social network point of view.",
	pages = "252-262(11)",
	url = "http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/mcb/264/2006/00000030/00000003/art00004"
	doi = "doi:10.1108/14684520610675780"
}