SocialWiki: Bring Order to Wiki Systems with Social Context

A huge amount of administrative effort is required for large wiki systems to produce and maintain high quality pages with existing naive access control policies. This paper introduces SocialWiki, a prototype wiki system which leverages the power of social networks to automatically manage reputation and trust for wiki users based on the content they contribute and the ratings they receive. SocialWiki also utilizes interests to facilitate collaborative editing. Although a wiki page is visible to everyone, it can only be edited by a group of users who share similar interests and have a certain level of trust with each other. The editing privilege is circulated among these users to prevent/reduce vandalisms and spams, and to encourage user participation by adding social context to the revision process of a wiki page. By presenting the design and implementation of this proof-of-concept system, we show that social context can be used to build an efficient, self-adaptive and robust collaborat...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2010
• Where: SOCINFO
• Authors: Haifeng Zhao, Shaozhi Ye, Prantik Bhattacharyya, Jeff Rowe, Ken Gribble, Shyhtsun Felix Wu
• Keywords: Applied Computing, Collaborative Editing, Social Networks, SOCINFO 2010, Wiki, Wiki Page