Visualizing Recent Changes in Wikipedia

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Visualizing Recent Changes in Wikipedia - scientific work related to Wikipedia quality published in 2013, written by Robert P. Biuk-Aghai, Roy Chi Kit Chan, Yain-Whar Si and Simon Fong.

Overview

Large wikis such as Wikipedia attract large numbers of editors continuously editing content. It is difficult to observe what editing activity goes on at any given moment, what editing patterns can be observed, and which are the currently active editors and articles. Authors introduce the design and implementation of an information visualization tool for data streams of recent changes in wikis that aims to address this difficulty. Authors also show examples of visualizations from English Wikipedia, and present several patterns of editing activity that authors have visually identified using tool. Authors have evaluated tool’s usability, accuracy and speed of task performance in comparison with Wikipedia’s recent changes page, and have obtained qualitative feedback from users on the pros and cons of tool. Authors also present a review of the related literature.