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
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
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
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
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,
McIver, David J. and John S. Brownstein (April 17, 2014) Wikipedia
Usage Estimates Prevalence of Influenza-Like Illness in the United
States in Near Real-Time PLOS Computational Biology:
http://www.ploscompbiol.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003581
Wikipedia article view data has been
