Authors:
Antonio J. Reinoso
1
;
Juan Ortega-Valiente
2
;
Rocío Muñoz-Mansilla
2
and
Carlos León
3
Affiliations:
1
URJC, Spain
;
2
UAX, Spain
;
3
UNED, Spain
Keyword(s):
Wikipedia, Use Patterns, Traffic Characterization, Content Categorization.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Artificial Intelligence
;
Collaboration and e-Services
;
Data Engineering
;
e-Business
;
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Information Integration
;
Integration/Interoperability
;
Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development
;
Knowledge Representation
;
Knowledge-Based Systems
;
Ontologies and the Semantic Web
;
Symbolic Systems
Abstract:
This paper aims to analyze how the most requested and contributed contents in Wikipedia may significantly vary depending on the considered edition. The on-line Encyclopedia has become a prolific research topic, mainly in aspects related to the assessment of its contents and in its evolution forecasting. However, very little effort has been devoted to deal with the kind of use given to Wikipedia by its visitors, either occasional or subscribers. Thus, our work aims to explore the utilization made of Wikipedia through a classification of the most requested and contributed contents in some of its editions. This way, we will be in position of determining which type of contents attracts the highest numbers of visits and contributions in these editions and which can be a good indicator of the use given to them by their respective community of users. Apart from the subsequent comparison purposes, such examination may reveal interesting topics such as the transmission of tendencies over the
different Wikipedia editions, as well as particular user patterns exhibited by the corresponding communities of users.
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