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
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On 23/04/14 19:55, Johannes Hoffart wrote:
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)?
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
Hoi, You may also want to consider people who died in 2014 and if there is an article for him or her in a Wikipedia.. This query shows everybody known to have died in 2014 in Wikidata [1]. It is not complete yet, around 500 more people need to be added to Wikidata. The number of known deaths is at least double the number of known deaths in en,wp.
NB there are Americans, Aussies, Britons in this list unknown on the en,wp. Thanks, GerardN
[1] http://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/autolist.html?q=claim%5B31%3A5%5D%20a...]
On 23 April 2014 10:24, stuart yeates syeates@gmail.com wrote:
On 23/04/14 19:55, Johannes Hoffart wrote:
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)?
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
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Hello,
Maybe those who died recently have fairly up to date articles because of the recent attention.
I once looked at the article of a German politician who is already out of office for some years, but who had left party. I compared articles in different language versions whether they were updated on that or not.
Maybe a suggestion?
Kind regards Ziko
2014-04-23 11:00 GMT+02:00 Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijssen@gmail.com:
Hoi, You may also want to consider people who died in 2014 and if there is an article for him or her in a Wikipedia.. This query shows everybody known to have died in 2014 in Wikidata [1]. It is not complete yet, around 500 more people need to be added to Wikidata. The number of known deaths is at least double the number of known deaths in en,wp.
NB there are Americans, Aussies, Britons in this list unknown on the en,wp. Thanks, GerardN
[1] http://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/autolist.html?q=claim%5B31%3A5%5D%20a...]
On 23 April 2014 10:24, stuart yeates syeates@gmail.com wrote:
On 23/04/14 19:55, Johannes Hoffart wrote:
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)?
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
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http://collablab.northwestern.edu/pubs/ABS2013_Keegan.pdf
On 04/23/2014 03:55 AM, Johannes Hoffart wrote:
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
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Thanks for all of your suggestions, and thanks for the reference to Keegan et al., this is very much the thing I have been looking for!
Cheers Johannes
On 23 Apr 2014, at 13:51, Andrew G. West west.andrew.g@gmail.com wrote:
http://collablab.northwestern.edu/pubs/ABS2013_Keegan.pdf
On 04/23/2014 03:55 AM, Johannes Hoffart wrote:
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/
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