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Quantitative Analysis of Thewikipedia Community of Users
Authors
Felipe Ortega
Jesús M. González Barahona
Publication date
2007
DOI
10.1145/1296951.1296960
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Quantitative Analysis of Thewikipedia Community of Users - scientific work related to Wikipedia quality published in 2007, written by Felipe Ortega and Jesús M. González Barahona.

Overview

Many activities of editors in Wikipedia can be traced using its database dumps, which register detailed information about every single change to every article. Several researchers have used this information to gain knowledge about the production process of articles, and about activity patterns of authors. In this analysis, authors have focused onone of those previous works, by Kittur et al. First, authors have followed the same methodology with more recent and comprehensive data. Then, authors have extended this methodology to precisely identify which fraction of authors are producing most of the changes in Wikipedia's articles, and how the behaviour of these authors evolves over time. This enabled us not only to validate some of the previous results, but also to find new interesting evidences. Authors have found that the analysis of sysops is not a good method for estimating different levels of contributions, since it is dependent on the policy for electing them (which changes over time and for each language). Moreover, authors have found new activity patterns classifying authors by their contributions during specific periods of time, instead of using their total number of contributions over the whole life of Wikipedia. Finally, authors present a tool that automates this extended methodology, implementing a quick and complete quantitative analysis ofevery language edition in Wikipedia.

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Ortega, Felipe; Barahona, Jesús M. González. (2007). "[[Quantitative Analysis of Thewikipedia Community of Users]]".DOI: 10.1145/1296951.1296960.

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{{cite journal |last1=Ortega |first1=Felipe |last2=Barahona |first2=Jesús M. González |title=Quantitative Analysis of Thewikipedia Community of Users |date=2007 |doi=10.1145/1296951.1296960 |url=https://wikipediaquality.com/wiki/Quantitative_Analysis_of_Thewikipedia_Community_of_Users}}

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Ortega, Felipe; Barahona, Jesús M. González. (2007). &quot;<a href="https://wikipediaquality.com/wiki/Quantitative_Analysis_of_Thewikipedia_Community_of_Users">Quantitative Analysis of Thewikipedia Community of Users</a>&quot;.DOI: 10.1145/1296951.1296960.