Abstract:
Since its inception, Wikipedia has grown to a solid and stable project
and turned into a mass collaboration tool that allows the sharing and distribution
of knowledge. The wiki approach that basis this initiative promotes the
participation and collaboration of users. In addition to visits for
browsing its contents, Wikipedia also receives the contributions of users
to improve them. In the past, researchers paid attention to different aspects
concerning authoring and quality of contents. However, little effort has been made
to study the nature of the visits that Wikipedia receives. We conduct
such an study using a sample of users' requests provided by the Wikimedia
Foundation in the form of Squid log lines. Our sample contains more that 14,000
million requests from users all around the world and directed to all the projects
maintained by the Wikimedia Foundation, including different editions
of Wikipedia. This papers describes the work made to characterize the
traffic directed to Wikipedia and consisting of the requests sent by
its users. Our main aim is to obtain a detailed description
of its composition in terms of the percentages corresponding to the different
types of requests making part of it. The benefits from our work may
range from the prediction of traffic peaks to the determination of the
kind of resources most often requested, which can be useful for
scalability considerations.
Conference: The Seventh International Conference on Internet and Web Applications and Services (ICIW'12)
Language: English
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