Visualizing Editor Trends in Wikipedia

https://cosmiclattes.github.io/wikigraphs/data/wikis

by cosmiclattes • 11 years ago

2 3 11 years ago

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I've been working on visualizing editor behaviour on wikipedia for the past few months. The presentation below is a sneak peak on some of the graphs alongwith the explanation on reading them. They have some interesting findings.

The presentation - http://slides.com/cosmiclattes/edit-activity-graphs-analysis... The project page - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Editor_Behaviour_An... The Source Code - https://github.com/cosmiclattes/wikigraphs

cosmiclattes3• 11 years ago

A screen grab of some of the graphs - https://twitter.com/WikiResearch/status/644874872326254592

cosmiclattes3• 11 years ago

Some of the preliminary findings:

The monthly decline in active editors in the english wikipedia may be attributed to the old timers becoming less active. We see this across other languages too.

Only the articles in the (beginning - 2007) cohorts continue to see active edit activity.

Editor retention rates are much higher in languages like de(german), zh(chinese), ru(russian) etc.

zh(Chinese) shows an uptrend on many fronts. Active Editors, retention etc).

Visualizing Editor Trends in Wikipedia

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