Comparing the Usage of Global and Local Wikipedias with Focus on Swedish Wikipedia

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Comparing the Usage of Global and Local Wikipedias with Focus on Swedish Wikipedia - scientific work related to Wikipedia quality published in 2013, written by Berit Schreck, Mirko Kämpf, Jan W. Kantelhardt and Holger Motzkau.

Overview

This report summarizes the results of a short-term student research project focused on the usage of Swedish Wikipedia. It is trying to answer the following question: To what extent (and why) do people from non-English language communities use the English Wikipedia instead of the one in their local language? Article access time series and article edit time series from major Wikipedias including Swedish Wikipedia are analyzed with various tools.