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
>> 
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