Surveying Wikipedia Activity: Collaboration, Commercialism, and Culture

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Surveying Wikipedia Activity: Collaboration, Commercialism, and Culture
Authors
Ossi Karkulahti
Jussi Kangasharju
Publication date
2012
DOI
10.1109/ICOIN.2012.6164405
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Surveying Wikipedia Activity: Collaboration, Commercialism, and Culture - scientific work related to Wikipedia quality published in 2012, written by Ossi Karkulahti and Jussi Kangasharju.

Overview

User generated content has grown drastically on the Internet over the last years. In this paper, authors take a look at Wikipedia and compare Wikipedia editing activity both against commercial content producers as well as across different cultures. Authors results show that commercial news sites have a clear diurnal and weekday-weekend patterns, whereas Wikipedia editing has a clear diurnal pattern, but no discernible weekday-weekend pattern. Authors studied 4 different Wikipedias from 4 different languages and cultures and found out that the editing behavior is very similar across all of them.

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Karkulahti, Ossi; Kangasharju, Jussi. (2012). "[[Surveying Wikipedia Activity: Collaboration, Commercialism, and Culture]]".DOI: 10.1109/ICOIN.2012.6164405.

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Karkulahti, Ossi; Kangasharju, Jussi. (2012). &quot;<a href="https://wikipediaquality.com/wiki/Surveying_Wikipedia_Activity:_Collaboration,_Commercialism,_and_Culture">Surveying Wikipedia Activity: Collaboration, Commercialism, and Culture</a>&quot;.DOI: 10.1109/ICOIN.2012.6164405.