Wikipedia's Most Controversial Topics Incites Edit Wars

Comedian Stephen Colbert once brought national attention to the subject of crowd sourced knowledge in a humorous comedy short about Wikiality, but the nature of controversial topics on Wikipedia is actually more like a digital blitzkrieg. Volunteer editors are constantly changing topics in real-time edit wars that are now being monitored as subject of scientific and geographical analysis.


The research team from the University of Oxford are ranking and mapping controversial topics according to various languages and mapping out revert edits (edits that are changed immediately back to their original wording) by users across the globe.

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