An agent-based model of edit wars in Wikipedia: How and when is consensus reached

@article{Kalyanasundaram2015AnAM,  title={An agent-based model of edit wars in Wikipedia: How and when is consensus reached},  author={Arun Kalyanasundaram and Wei Wei and Kathleen M. Carley and James D. Herbsleb},  journal={2015 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC)},  year={2015},  pages={276-287},  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:9353425}}
It is shown that increasing the number of credible or trustworthy agents and agents with a neutral point of view decreases the time taken to reach consensus, whereas the duration is longest when agents with opposing views are in equal proportion.

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