Wikipedia:Wikirage
| URL | http://www.wikirage.com |
|---|---|
| Commercial? | yes |
| Type of site | Web analytics |
| Registration | no |
| Available language(s) | English German French Japanese Spanish |
| Owner | Craig "W3ace" Wood |
| Created by | Craig "W3ace" Wood |
| Launched | September 2007 |
| Alexa rank | >100,000 |
| Current status | inactive |
Wikirage was a website that provided an overview of the most heavily edited articles on Wikipedia.[1] It allowed viewers to track the top 100 articles which were edited within the last hour, day, week, or month.[2] The creation of Wikirage coincided with the English Wikipedia reaching 2 million articles and WikiScanner getting mainstream publicity.
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[edit] Methodology
Wikirage used the edit stream on Wikipedia to find out what was hot and trendy in pop culture.
The first step in the process was to capture the edit stream. Wikipedia provides this reasonably up to date at this web address. It did not capturing Robots or Minor Edits, getting 500 edits a page spreads a time frame of 5-10 minutes depending on time of day and day of week.
The second step was to visit the page editing for every entry that was found in the list. Wikipedia lets you see that here. All of these actions were logged in a database. To give some background to the edits, a synopsis of each Wikipedia Page was pulled to look for flags on the page like cleanup and current event.
One more piece of contextual data was captured by capturing all links from the home page and Featured Articles Archive.
A summarization routine was then used to build the lists of what's hot. These routines were run 6-10 times an hour for the data points of 1, 6, 24, and 72 hours. The summarizer for weekly and monthly data were run once a day.
Undo, Reversion, and Vandalism were notes that are put on the edit trail and kept track of these statistics individually. Total Edits and Unique Editors were exactly what they describe. Quality Edits was the Total Edits minus Undos and Reversions.[3]
[edit] References
[edit] Notes
- ^ Sarno, David (2007-09-30), "Wikipedia wars erupt", Los Angeles Times, http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-ca-webscout30sep30,0,344107.story?coll=la-home-center
- ^ Hochman, Jonathan (2007-09-07). "Tracking Hot Topics On Wikipedia". Search Engine Land. http://searchengineland.com/070907-071741.php.
- ^ Wood, Craig (2009-01-09). "Wikirage Methodology". Craig's Blog. Archived from the original on 2009-10-27. http://web.archive.org/web/20091027023930/http://www.craigsblog.com/news/2009/01/09/wikirage-methodology/.
[edit] Further reading
- Hill, Joshua S. (September 2, 2007) Canada Free Press Vanity and Wikipedia = Public Embarrassment
[edit] External links
- http://www.wikirage.com -- Official website [Broken]
- Wikistream -- a similar website that provides both a continuous stream of edits and some statistics tables.
- Real-Time Recent Changes -- script by User:Krinkle
