Circadian Patterns of Wikipedia Editorial Activity: A Demographic Analysis

Yasseri, Taha; Sumi, Róbert; Kertész, János

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0030091

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“…Almost all weekdays showed similar contribution patterns; only on Sundays did the project prove to have a slightly larger number of data edits, while the afternoon and evening hours were identified as time ranges with the highest activity in OSM for each day. Overall, the discussed results of the OSM project match similar patterns previously found in Wikipedia [128] or mobile phone communication behavior [129]. Neis and Zipf [71] also identified different member groups in OSM based on the number of contributions the members made to the project and revealed that only around 5% of all members contributed in a significant way.…”

Section: Participation Inequalitysupporting

confidence: 78%

Recent Developments and Future Trends in Volunteered Geographic Information Research: The Case of OpenStreetMap

2014

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User-generated content (UGC) platforms on the Internet have experienced a steep increase in data contributions in recent years. The ubiquitous usage of location-enabled devices, such as smartphones, allows contributors to share their geographic information on a number of selected online portals. The collected information is oftentimes referred to as volunteered geographic information (VGI). One of the most utilized, analyzed and cited VGI-platforms, with an increasing popularity over the past few years, is OpenStreetMap (OSM), whose main goal it is to create a freely available geographic database of the world. This paper presents a comprehensive overview of the latest developments in VGI research, focusing on its collaboratively collected geodata and corresponding contributor patterns. Additionally, trends in the realm of OSM research are discussed, highlighting which aspects need to be investigated more closely in the near future.

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Section: Participation Inequalitysupporting

confidence: 78%

Recent Developments and Future Trends in Volunteered Geographic Information Research: The Case of OpenStreetMap

2014

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“…The activity shows a slight increase until around 9 p.m., where it start to decrease during night. This result corresponds closely to the circadian patterns previously observed in Wikipedia [26] as well as qualitatively corresponding to the other kind of human activities such as mobile calling behaviour [11], and the Internet instant messaging [18]. However, Rome editors show more activity around noon and less in the afternoon compared to London editors.…”

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Temporal analysis of activity patterns of editors in collaborative mapping project of OpenStreetMap

Yasseri

Quattrone

Mashhadi³

2013

Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Open Collaboration

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In the recent years Wikis have become an attractive platform for social studies of the human behaviour. Containing millions records of edits across the globe, collaborative systems such as Wikipedia have allowed researchers to gain a better understanding of editors participation and their activity patterns. However, contributions made to Geo-wikis -wikibased collaborative mapping projects-differ from systems such as Wikipedia in a fundamental way due to spatial dimension of the content that limits the contributors to a set of those who posses local knowledge about a specific area and therefore cross-platform studies and comparisons are required to build a comprehensive image of online open collaboration phenomena. In this work, we study the temporal behavioural pattern of OpenStreetMap editors, a successful example of geo-wiki, for two European capital cities. We categorise different type of temporal patterns and report on the historical trend within a period of 7 years of the project age. We also draw a comparison with the previously observed editing activity patterns of Wikipedia.

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“…While early analyses primarily investigated the quality of the outcome, over the last years the activity of VGI communities itself has come into focus. While activity of online communities has been studied in different domains, e.g., in the context of Wikipedia [2,3], VGI projects such as OpenStreetMap (OSM) are a welcome playground for GI scientists due to their open access policies and well-documented community processes, e.g., mailing lists or the OSM Wiki. Moreover, the OSM project maintains a complete history of the database back to the year 2005.…”

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A Framework for Data-Centric Analysis of Mapping Activity in the Context of Volunteered Geographic Information

Rehrl

Gröchenig

2016

IJGI

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Abstract:Over the last decade, volunteered geographic information (VGI) has become established as one of the most relevant geographic data sources in terms of worldwide coverage, representation of local knowledge and open data policies. Beside the data itself, data about community activity provides valuable insights into the mapping progress which can be useful for estimating data quality, understanding the activity of VGI communities or predicting future developments. This work proposes a conceptual as well as technical framework for structuring and analyzing mapping activity building on the concepts of activity theory. Taking OpenStreetMap as an example, the work outlines the necessary steps for converting database changes into user-and feature-centered operations and higher-level actions acting as a universal scheme for arbitrary spatio-temporal analyses of mapping activities. Different examples from continent to region and city-scale analyses demonstrate the practicability of the approach. Instead of focusing on the interpretation of specific analysis results, the work contributes on a meta-level by addressing several conceptual and technical questions with respect to the overall process of analyzing VGI community activity.

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Circadian Patterns of Wikipedia Editorial Activity: A Demographic Analysis

Cited by 116 publications

References 23 publications

Recent Developments and Future Trends in Volunteered Geographic Information Research: The Case of OpenStreetMap

Recent Developments and Future Trends in Volunteered Geographic Information Research: The Case of OpenStreetMap

Temporal analysis of activity patterns of editors in collaborative mapping project of OpenStreetMap

A Framework for Data-Centric Analysis of Mapping Activity in the Context of Volunteered Geographic Information

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