Drawing a Data-Driven Portrait of Wikipedia Editors

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Drawing a Data-Driven Portrait of Wikipedia Editors
Authors
Robert West
Ingmar Weber
Carlos Castillo
Publication date
2012
DOI
10.1145/2462932.2462937
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Drawing a Data-Driven Portrait of Wikipedia Editors - scientific work related to Wikipedia quality published in 2012, written by Robert West, Ingmar Weber and Carlos Castillo.

Overview

While there has been a substantial amount of research into the editorial and organizational processes within Wikipedia, little is known about how Wikipedia editors ( Wikipedians ) relate to the online world in general. Authors attempt to shed light on this issue by using aggregated log data from Yahoo!'s browser toolbar in order to analyze Wikipedians' editing behavior in the context of their online lives beyond Wikipedia. Authors broadly characterize editors by investigating how their online behavior differs from that of other users; e.g., authors find that Wikipedia editors search more, read more news, play more games, and, perhaps surprisingly, are more immersed in popular culture. Then authors inspect how editors' general interests relate to the articles to which they contribute; e.g., authors confirm the intuition that editors are more familiar with their active domains than average users. Finally, authors analyze the data from a temporal perspective; e.g., authors demonstrate that a user's interest in the edited topic peaks immediately before the edit. Authors results are relevant as they illuminate novel aspects of what has become many Web users' prevalent source of information.

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West, Robert; Weber, Ingmar; Castillo, Carlos. (2012). "[[Drawing a Data-Driven Portrait of Wikipedia Editors]]".DOI: 10.1145/2462932.2462937.

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West, Robert; Weber, Ingmar; Castillo, Carlos. (2012). &quot;<a href="https://wikipediaquality.com/wiki/Drawing_a_Data-Driven_Portrait_of_Wikipedia_Editors">Drawing a Data-Driven Portrait of Wikipedia Editors</a>&quot;.DOI: 10.1145/2462932.2462937.