Abstract:
This paper presents a quantitative study of the use of the
Wikipedia system by its users (both readers and editors),
with special focus on the identification of time and
kind-ofuse patterns, characterization of traffic and workload, and
comparative analysis of different language editions. The basis of
the study is the filtering and analysis of a large sample of the
requests directed to the Wikimedia systems for
six weeks during the range of months comprising November 2007 to
April 2008. In particular, we have considered
the twenty most frequently visited language editions of the
Wikipedia, identifying for each access to any of them the
corresponding namespace (sets of resources with uniform semantics),
resource name (article names, for example) and
action (editions, submissions, history reviews, save operations, etc.).
The results found include the identification of
weekly and daily patterns, and several correlations between
several actions on the articles. In summary, the study shows
an overall picture of how the most visited language editions
of the Wikipedia are being accessed by their users.
Conference: IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC'09)
Language: English
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