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Book Chapter: ID no. (ISBN etc.):  978-1-59593-861-9 BibTeX citation key:  ortega.640
Ortega Felipe & Gonzalez-Barahona Jesus M. (2007). « Quantitative analysis of the wikipedia community of users ». In WikiSym '07: Proceedings of the 2007 international symposium on Wikis. New York : ACM Press, p. 75–86.
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Categories: 5. économie et modèles éditoriaux
Keywords: communauté de pratique, régulation, statistiques, travail collaboratif, Wikipedia
Creators: Gonzalez-Barahona, Ortega
Publisher: ACM Press (New York)
Collection: WikiSym '07: Proceedings of the 2007 international symposium on Wikis

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Abstract
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, we have focused onone of those previous works, by Kittur et al. First, we have followed the same methodology with more recent and comprehensive data. Then, we 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. We 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, we 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, we present a tool that automates this extended methodology, implementing a quick and complete quantitative analysis ofevery language edition in Wikipedia.
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Further information may be found at:
http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1296951.1296960

 
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