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The source is linked from the OP. Here it is: http://slightlynew.blogspot.com/2011/05/who-writes-wikipedia-information.html http://slightlynew.blogspot.com/2011
by davnola 15y ago
The source is linked from the OP. Here it is: http://slightlynew.blogspot.com/2011/05/who-writes-wikipedia-information.html http://slightlynew.blogspot.com/2011/05/who-writes-wikipedia...
The author draws a wonderful parallel between bots in the Wikipedia ecosystem and bacteria in the human body.
- lsb 15y agoThanks for your kind words! I was fascinated by that talk. And if you want the code + data, you can just xargs https://github.com/lsb/ugc-contributors/blob/master/mh-diffs.rb https://github.com/lsb/ugc-contributors/blob/master/mh-diffs... over all of your pages-meta-history.7z files from http://dumps.wikimedia.org/enwiki/20110317/ http://dumps.wikimedia.org/enwiki/20110317/ or get the sqlite database from Infochimps from http://www.infochimps.com/datasets/entropy-per-revision-of-wikipedia-pages-beginning-with-m http://www.infochimps.com/datasets/entropy-per-revision-of-w...