Circadian Patterns of Wikipedia Editorial Activity: A Demographic Analysis
By Taha Yasseri, Robert Z. Sumi, János Kertész. 2011
131 citations recorded by the source corpus.
Wikipedia (WP) as a collaborative, dynamical system of humans is an appropriate subject of social studies. Each single action of the members of this society, i.e., editors, is well recorded and accessible. Using the cumulative data of 34 Wikipedias in different languages, we try to characterize and find the universalities and differences in temporal activity patterns of editors. Based on this data, we estimate the geographical distribution of editors for each WP in the globe. Furthermore we also clarify the differences among different groups of WPs, which originate in the variance of cultural and social features of the communities of editors.
Subfields: Communication
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Citations in the corpus
- Social Data: Biases, Methodological Pitfalls, and Ethical Boundaries (2019, background): “2004] and editorial activity on Wikipedia [Yasseri et al. 2012].”
- Early Prediction of Movie Box Office Success Based on Wikipedia Activity Big Data (2012, background): “Its size and growth [31–33], topical coverage and notability of entries [34–36], conflict and editorial wars among users [37–41], editorial patterns [42] and linguistic features [43] are only few examples of research topics associated with Wikipedia.”