Friday, July 19, 2013

Top 10 of the most controversial topics on Wikipedia




 

A team of researchers from the University of Oxford decided to identify the ten most controversial topics on Wikipedia. For this Yasseri Taha and his team decided to analyze the 'war Editions' ie when a contributor writes something and that this contribution is immediately changed by another. by studying these editions, researchers have realized that they have something called the 'reverse mutual'. A phenomenon that affects the controversial: a contributor will add something, another will then simply remove this contribution because it does not agree and vice versa. These 'wars edition' mean that many pages are constantly changing and will probably never find peace.

Here without further delay the famous top 10, the most controversial at least controversial.

  1.  George W. Bush 

  2. anarchism  

  3. Muhammad (the prophet) 

  4. The list of persons employed by the WWE, wrestling company

  5. Global warming

  6. circumcision

  7. The United States

  8. Jesus

  9. Race et intelligence

  10. Christianity