I was wondering about contributors who are posting in several Wikipedia, Who are they? What country are they from?
Surely English Wikipedia is a leader in the number of contributors, articles, articles edits and number of users who contribute both in English and any other Wikipedia is high. I never doubt it. What about other Wikipedia? Looking at Wikipedia we can find which nations interact more often with each other than others.
A bit more than 1% of all contributors from our data set editing/creating articles in 2 Wikipedia. Only 12 of 4,919,026 users have ever worked in 5 Wikipedia.
Most of the cross-Wikipedia authors are registered; therefore, we cannot identify the place where the authors come from. A majority of the cross-Wikipedia anonymous authors are coming from Germany (15%) and the United States (11%)
The cross-Wikipedia authors contributing to more than 3 Wikipedia are summarized in following table.
We find 1,718 contributors that did 618,584 edits. In the table we summarize the contributors work: the number of edits and the number of edits per cross-Wikipedia user. Cross-Wikipedia users contributing in 3 Wikipedia, are participating often in Russian, Japanese and any other Wikipedia from the set. The highest activity (more than 100 edits per cross-Wikipedia user) was shown in Macedonian, Russian, Catalan and Arabic Wikipedia instances. Generally cross-Wikipedia users are more active than contributors working only in one Wikipedia.
We analyzed the Wikipedia data starting from June, 30th 2001 till January, 1 2009 and divide this time into 16 equal time intervals to keep visualizations simple. The period of the 1st interval is from June 30th, 2001 till December 31st, 2001, the period of the 2nd interval is from January 1st, 2002 till June, 29, 2002 and so on. Because of hardware limitations, we did not consider all revisions done in the period for constructing author networks. As Wikipedia instances have different number of articles, we choose a number of revisions depending on the number of all revisions in the instances. The revisions are picked up along an article timeline. The overall structure of the Wikipedia network and activities of Wikipedians are not impaired by this data reduction. Finally, we got datasets with number of revisions comparable to each other.
We chose both European and Asian Wikipedia. The instances were selected according to their size: large European Wikipedia (Spanish and Russian), large Asian Wikipedia (Japanese and Turkish), small European Wikipedia (Bulgarian, Catalan, Danish, Greek, Macedonian, and Ukrainian) and small Asian Wikipedia (Arabic, Hindi, and Korean). The list of small European Wikipedia list includes Wikipedia of different Slavic languages (Bulgarian, Macedonian, Ukrainian) and the Catalan Wikipedia, the Wikipedia of a minority language group in Spain.
Surely English Wikipedia is a leader in the number of contributors, articles, articles edits and number of users who contribute both in English and any other Wikipedia is high. I never doubt it. What about other Wikipedia? Looking at Wikipedia we can find which nations interact more often with each other than others.
A bit more than 1% of all contributors from our data set editing/creating articles in 2 Wikipedia. Only 12 of 4,919,026 users have ever worked in 5 Wikipedia.
Most of the cross-Wikipedia authors are registered; therefore, we cannot identify the place where the authors come from. A majority of the cross-Wikipedia anonymous authors are coming from Germany (15%) and the United States (11%)
The cross-Wikipedia authors contributing to more than 3 Wikipedia are summarized in following table.
We find 1,718 contributors that did 618,584 edits. In the table we summarize the contributors work: the number of edits and the number of edits per cross-Wikipedia user. Cross-Wikipedia users contributing in 3 Wikipedia, are participating often in Russian, Japanese and any other Wikipedia from the set. The highest activity (more than 100 edits per cross-Wikipedia user) was shown in Macedonian, Russian, Catalan and Arabic Wikipedia instances. Generally cross-Wikipedia users are more active than contributors working only in one Wikipedia.
Data set:
We analyzed the Wikipedia data starting from June, 30th 2001 till January, 1 2009 and divide this time into 16 equal time intervals to keep visualizations simple. The period of the 1st interval is from June 30th, 2001 till December 31st, 2001, the period of the 2nd interval is from January 1st, 2002 till June, 29, 2002 and so on. Because of hardware limitations, we did not consider all revisions done in the period for constructing author networks. As Wikipedia instances have different number of articles, we choose a number of revisions depending on the number of all revisions in the instances. The revisions are picked up along an article timeline. The overall structure of the Wikipedia network and activities of Wikipedians are not impaired by this data reduction. Finally, we got datasets with number of revisions comparable to each other.
We chose both European and Asian Wikipedia. The instances were selected according to their size: large European Wikipedia (Spanish and Russian), large Asian Wikipedia (Japanese and Turkish), small European Wikipedia (Bulgarian, Catalan, Danish, Greek, Macedonian, and Ukrainian) and small Asian Wikipedia (Arabic, Hindi, and Korean). The list of small European Wikipedia list includes Wikipedia of different Slavic languages (Bulgarian, Macedonian, Ukrainian) and the Catalan Wikipedia, the Wikipedia of a minority language group in Spain.
