Nieman Foundation at Harvard
What can we learn from examining the networks of users who edit articles on Wikipedia?
That’s the question Brian Keegan, a post-doctoral fellow at Northeastern University, is asking, and he gave a presentation of some of his findings at Harvard’s Center for Research on Computation and Society this week.
Keegan looked at 3,000 articles about natural disasters, plane crashes, and other breaking news events and found that there is a solid core group of editors who work together and consistently edit articles about these events within the first 24 hours after they break. Then other editors swoop in and edit those articles once they’re no longer fast-changing news stories.
Interestingly though, Keegan found a third group of editors who focus on a single topic — he highlighted WikiProject Tropical Cyclones — who will edit articles, breaking or not, on the topic that interests them. So members of the cyclone group (their motto: “Wanna go for a spin?”) will get involved in newsier articles if, say, a hurricane is about to hit somewhere — but they’re also interested in editing historical and scientific articles about tropical storms.
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I tried to leave a comment here back in 2012, giving an example of one person who edits Wikipedia, but a Nieman staff member removed it as too insulting. Anyway… it turns out that my general hunch was correct. Still of interest, perhaps: https://www.buzzfeed.com/ryanhatesthis/sandy-hook-shooter-adam-lanza-used-to-edit-wikipedia-article?
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