On 23/04/14 19:55, Johannes Hoffart wrote: One way of doing this would be to look at the biographies of the recently-deceased. Check for articles in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:2013_deaths created after the death of the subject and calculate the time difference. cheers stuart _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l

Hi everybody, I was wondering if there is any work answering the question on how "up-to-date" Wikipedia is. For some high-impact news, like Snowden's revelation of the PRISM program, articles are written in mere hours. For others, e.g. business people taking on important posts in companies and thus becoming Wikipedia-relevant, it sometimes takes weeks until an article is written (Ian Robertson of BMW is an example). Is there some work trying to answer this question of how long it takes for Wikipedia articles to be created after an event became newsworthy (and eventually ends up in Wikipedia)? Cheers Johannes -- Doctoral Researcher Max-Planck-Institut fuer Informatik Databases and Information Systems Campus E1.4 66123 Saarbruecken http://www.mpi-inf.mpg.de/~jhoffart/ _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l