| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立清華大學 === 科技管理研究所 === 95 === Following the use of internet, web has become a new way of communication. People can access web crossing over the limit of area to interact with each other, and form ' virtual community '. And the popularization of information science and technology brings the gradual progress of Web and get in the era of Web2.0. Then the platform of Web begins to have high-speed transforming and collaborative opening characteristics, and the people will exchange information or create the content to improve the value of network via such characteristics. Wiki technology is a system making people edit, express an opinion instantly, and which is a kind of platform fits in concept of the network further, the participant accumulates knowledge by collaborative writing to form a huge ‘Wiki community‘ via the relationship of their behavior.
Wikipedia is the most successful application of Wiki technology at present, which is an online encyclopedia project. Since there were few researches about Wiki community and ‘social network’ is an effective way to evaluate the state of an organization, the purpose of this research is to explore Wikipedia using social network analysis. To discuss the relation and participation of users in Wikipedia as a Wiki community and take into editor’s participation and editing times for a research direction, the study gets some achievements: (1)It’s a new way to explore the relation between participation and editing times in Wikipedia with the concept of social network. (2)The editing frequency in Wikipedia maybe can reflect the attention of society.(3)To explain the characteristic of Wiki technology in Wikipedia.by the research data analyzing.
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