Authors:
Antonio J. Reinoso
1
;
Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona
1
;
Rocío Muñoz-Mansilla
2
and
Israel Herraiz
3
Affiliations:
1
Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain
;
2
UNED, Spain
;
3
Technical University of Madrid, Spain
Keyword(s):
Wikipedia, Featured articles, Usage patterns, Traffic characterization, Quantitative analysis.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Business Analytics
;
Communication and Software Technologies and Architectures
;
Data and Information Retrieval
;
Data Engineering
;
Data Warehouses and Data Mining
;
e-Business
;
Enterprise Information Systems
Abstract:
This paper presents a quantitative examination of the impact of the presentation of featured articles as quality content in the main page of several Wikipedia editions. Moreover, the paper also presents the analysis performed to determine the number of visits received by the articles promoted to the featured status. We have analyzed the visits not only in the month when articles awarded the promotion or were included in the main page, but also in the previous and following ones. The main aim for this is to assess the attention attracted by the featured content and the different dynamics exhibited by each community of users in respect to the promotion process. The main results of this paper are twofold: it shows how to extract relevant information related to the use of Wikipedia, which is an emerging research topic, and it analyzes whether the featured articles mechanism achieve to attract more attention.