Fluctuations in Wikipedia Access-Rate and Edit-Event Data

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Fluctuations in Wikipedia Access-Rate and Edit-Event Data
Authors
Mirko Kämpf
Sebastian Tismer
Jan W. Kantelhardt
Lev Muchnik
Publication date
2012
DOI
10.1016/j.physa.2012.07.004
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Fluctuations in Wikipedia Access-Rate and Edit-Event Data - scientific work related to Wikipedia quality published in 2012, written by Mirko Kämpf, Sebastian Tismer, Jan W. Kantelhardt and Lev Muchnik.

Overview

Internet-based social networks often reflect extreme events in nature and society by drastic increases in user activity. Authors study and compare the dynamics of the two major complex processes necessary for information spread via the online encyclopedia ‘Wikipedia’, i.e., article editing (information upload) and article access (information viewing) based on article edit-event time series and (hourly) user access-rate time series for all articles. Daily and weekly activity patterns occur in addition to fluctuations and bursting activity. The bursts (i.e., significant increases in activity for an extended period of time) are characterized by a power-law distribution of durations of increases and decreases. For describing the recurrence and clustering of bursts authors investigate the statistics of the return intervals between them. Authors find stretched exponential distributions of return intervals in access-rate time series, while edit-event time series yield simple exponential distributions. To characterize the fluctuation behavior authors apply detrended fluctuation analysis (DFA), finding that most article access-rate time series are characterized by strong long-term correlations with fluctuation exponents α≈0.9. The results indicate significant differences in the dynamics of information upload and access and help in understanding the complex process of collecting, processing, validating, and distributing information in self-organized social networks.

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Kämpf, Mirko; Tismer, Sebastian; Kantelhardt, Jan W.; Muchnik, Lev. (2012). "[[Fluctuations in Wikipedia Access-Rate and Edit-Event Data]]". Elsevier. DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2012.07.004.

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Kämpf, Mirko; Tismer, Sebastian; Kantelhardt, Jan W.; Muchnik, Lev. (2012). &quot;<a href="https://wikipediaquality.com/wiki/Fluctuations_in_Wikipedia_Access-Rate_and_Edit-Event_Data">Fluctuations in Wikipedia Access-Rate and Edit-Event Data</a>&quot;. Elsevier. DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2012.07.004.