Finding Structure in Wikipedia Edit Activity

Published: Jan 1, 2016
Abstract
This paper documents a study of the real-time Wikipedia edit stream containing over 6 million edits on 1.5 million English Wikipedia articles, during 2015. We focus on answering questions related to identification and use of information cascades between Wikipedia articles, based on author editing activity. Our findings show that by constructing information cascades between Wikipedia articles using editing activity, we are able to construct an...
Paper Details
Title
Finding Structure in Wikipedia Edit Activity
Published Date
Jan 1, 2016
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