Wikipedia:Wikirage
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 |
|
|---|---|
| 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 | active |
Wikirage is a website that provides an overview of the most heavily edited articles on Wikipedia.[1] It allows viewers to track the top 100 articles which were edited within the last hour, day, week, or month.[2] The creation of Wikirage coincides with the English Wikipedia reaching 2 million articles and WikiScanner getting mainstream publicity.
Contents |
[edit] Methodology
Wikirage uses the edit stream on Wikipedia to find out what is hot and trendy in pop culture.
The first step in the process is to capture the edit stream. Wikipedia provides this reasonably up to date at this web address. I'm currently 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 is to visit the page editing for every entry that was found in the list. Wikipedia lets you see that here. I log all of these actions in a database.
To give some background to the edits I pull a synopsis of each Wikipedia Page and look for flags on the page like cleanup and current event. As I'm writing this, the Russia-Ukraine gas disputes page shows examples of flags that editors place on Wiki content.
One more piece of contextual data is captured by capturing all links from the home page and Featured Articles Archive.
Once you have all of the data you can now do a summarization routine to build the lists of what's hot. I run summarizations 6-10 times an hour for the data points of 1, 6, 24, and 72 hours. The summarizer for weekly and monthly data are run once a day.
Undo, Reversion, and Vandalism are notes that are put on the edit trail and I keep track of these statistics individually. Total Edits and Unique Editors are exactly what they describe. Quality Edits is 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. (September 7, 2007) Search Engine Land Tracking Hot Topics On Wikipedia.
- ^ Wood, Craig (2009-01-10), "Wikirage Methodology", Craig's Blog, http://www.craigsblog.com/news/2009/01/09/wikirage-methodology/
[edit] Further reading
- Hill, Joshua S. (September 2, 2007) Canada Free Press Information, cultural knowledge, embarrassment. Vanity and Wikipedia = Public Embarrassment.
- Hochman, Jonathan. (September 7, 2007) Search Engine Land Tracking Hot Topics On Wikipedia.
