Wikipedia and Westminster
Wikipedia and Westminster
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维基百科和威斯敏斯特
DOI：
10.1145/3372923.3404817
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2020
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Agarwal P
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Agarwal P
维基百科是在线提供大量内容的主要信息来源，受到来自世界各地的读者的信任。读者去维基百科获取关于不同主题的可靠信息，其中最受欢迎的是活人，尤其是政客。虽然人们对维基百科上的一般使用和信息消费知道得很多，但对维基百科文章在政治背景下的生命周期和质量知之甚少。这项研究的目的是量化和限定关于政治家的文章的内容生产和消费，特别关注英国国会议员(MPS)。首先，我们分析读者和编辑参与议员维基百科页面的时空模式，发现选举期间关注度的巨大峰值与其他社交媒体(如Twitter)上的参与迹象相关。其次，我们量化了编辑的两极分化，发现大多数编辑专注于某个特定的政党，并选择特定的新闻机构作为参考。最后，我们观察到，平均引文质量相当高，关于早期生活和职业生涯的陈述最常遗漏引文(18%)。
Wikipedia is a major source of information providing a large variety of content online, trusted by readers from around the world. Readers go to Wikipedia to get reliable information about different subjects, one of the most popular being living people, and especially politicians. While a lot is known about the general usage and information consumption on Wikipedia, less is known about the life-cycle and quality of Wikipedia articles in the context of politics. The aim of this study is to quantify and qualify content production and consumption for articles about politicians, with a specific focus on UK Members of Parliament (MPs).First, we analyze spatio-temporal patterns of readers' and editors' engagement with MPs' Wikipedia pages, finding huge peaks of attention during election times, related to signs of engagement on other social media (e.g. Twitter). Second, we quantify editors' polarisation and find that most editors specialize in a specific party and choose specific news outlets as references. Finally we observe that the average citation quality is pretty high, with statements on 'Early life and career' missing citations most often (18%).