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Wikipedia Edits Around the World

Posted by timothy on from the get-your-edit-on dept.

billlava writes "Wikipedia continues on its inexorable march toward becoming the repository for the world's knowledge — to the tune of four and a half edits a second. Just who is doing all these edits? And where do they live? Erik Zachte compiled data from a day in May 2011 into an interesting set of animations and maps to show update activity as it occurred during the day."

2 of 85 comments (clear)

  1. Citation Needed for FIRST POST by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Insightful

    Citation Needed for FIRST POST

    Yeah

  2. Qualitative data over quantitative data by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    How many of those edits are reverting vandalism?
    Furthermore, how many of those edits are overwriting legitimate, accurate content that the all-knowing editors deem to be "unsuitable" for article inclusion?

    I could imagine that these numbers are quite padded by the bureaucracy and drama that engulfs the Wikiworld.