Robert West
Ingmar Weber
Carlos Castillo
ABSTRACT
Who edits Wikipedia? We attempt to shed light on this question 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. We broadly characterize editors by investigating how their online behavior differs from that of other users; e.g., we find that Wikipedia editors search more, read more news, play more games, and, perhaps surprisingly, are more immersed in pop culture. Then we inspect how editors' general interests relate to the articles to which they contribute; e.g., we confirm the intuition that editors show more expertise in their active domains than average users. Our results are relevant as they illuminate novel aspects of what has become many Web users' prevalent source of information and can help in recruiting new editors.
- Wikimedia Foundation. Editor survey, April 2011. {Online; accessed September 13, 2011}.Google Scholar
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- A data-driven sketch of Wikipedia editors
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