@inproceedings{4ec3e7d45d3a4c9ab1caff8f5affe9f2,
title = "Sentiments in wikipedia articles for deletion discussions",
abstract = "Wikipedia provides a discussion forum, namely, Article for Deletion forum, for people to deliberate about whether or not an article should be deleted from the site. In this paper, we present interesting correlation between outcomes of the discussion and number of sentiments in the comments with different intensity. We performed sentiment analysis on 37,761 AfD discussions with 156,415 top-level comments and explored relationship between outcomes of the discussion and sentiments in the comments. Our preliminary work suggests: discussion that have keep or other outcomes have more than expected positive sentiment, whereas discussions that have delete outcomes have more than expected negative and neutral sentiment. This result shows that there tends to be positive sentiment in the comment when Wikipedia users suggest not to delete the article. This observation of differences in sentiments also encourages to further study influence of sentiments in decision making or outcome of the discussions. Our future analysis will include threaded comments, and examine the relationship between a discussion{\textquoteright}s sentiment and its other properties such as topic of the article and the characteristics of the participating users.",
keywords = "Online discussion, Sentiment analysis, Wikipedia",
author = "Lu Xiao and Niraj Sitaula",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018.; 13th International Conference on Transforming Digital Worlds, iConference 2018 ; Conference date: 25-03-2018 Through 28-03-2018",
year = "2018",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-319-78105-1_10",
language = "English (US)",
isbn = "9783319781044",
series = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)",
publisher = "Springer Verlag",
pages = "81--86",
editor = "Gobinda Chowdhury and Julie McLeod and Val Gillet and Peter Willett",
booktitle = "Transforming Digital Worlds - 13th International Conference, iConference 2018, Proceedings",
}