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 <[email protected]> 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/ >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wiki-research-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l >> > > -- > Andrew G. West, PhD > Research Scientist > Verisign Labs - Reston, VA > Phone: (304)-415-5824 (personal) > (571)-455-6161 (mobile) > (703)-948-4431 (office) > Email: [email protected] > [email protected] > Website: http://www.andrew-g-west.com > > Please direct all correspondence not germane to Verisign's business > purposes to my personal phone and/or email addresses. > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
