Wikipedia is a collaboratively-edited online encyclopaedia that
relies on thousands of edito... more Wikipedia is a collaboratively-edited online encyclopaedia that
relies on thousands of editors to both contribute articles and
maintain their quality. Over the last years, research has
extensively investigated this group of users while another group of
Wikipedia users, the readers, their preferences and their behavior
have not been much studied. This paper makes this group and its
activities \emph{visible} and \emph{valuable} to Wikipedia's editor
community. We carried out a study on two datasets covering a
13-months period to obtain insights on users preferences and reading
behavior in Wikipedia. We show that the most read articles do not
necessarily correspond to those frequently edited, suggesting some
degree of non-alignment between user reading preferences and
author editing preferences.
We also identified that popular and often edited articles are read
according to four main patterns, and that how an article is read may
change over time. We illustrate how this information can provide
valuable insights to Wikipedia's editor community.
Wikipedia is a collaboratively-edited online encyclopaedia that
relies on thousands of edito... more Wikipedia is a collaboratively-edited online encyclopaedia that
relies on thousands of editors to both contribute articles and
maintain their quality. Over the last years, research has
extensively investigated this group of users while another group of
Wikipedia users, the readers, their preferences and their behavior
have not been much studied. This paper makes this group and its
activities \emph{visible} and \emph{valuable} to Wikipedia's editor
community. We carried out a study on two datasets covering a
13-months period to obtain insights on users preferences and reading
behavior in Wikipedia. We show that the most read articles do not
necessarily correspond to those frequently edited, suggesting some
degree of non-alignment between user reading preferences and
author editing preferences.
We also identified that popular and often edited articles are read
according to four main patterns, and that how an article is read may
change over time. We illustrate how this information can provide
valuable insights to Wikipedia's editor community.
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relies on thousands of editors to both contribute articles and
maintain their quality. Over the last years, research has
extensively investigated this group of users while another group of
Wikipedia users, the readers, their preferences and their behavior
have not been much studied. This paper makes this group and its
activities \emph{visible} and \emph{valuable} to Wikipedia's editor
community. We carried out a study on two datasets covering a
13-months period to obtain insights on users preferences and reading
behavior in Wikipedia. We show that the most read articles do not
necessarily correspond to those frequently edited, suggesting some
degree of non-alignment between user reading preferences and
author editing preferences.
We also identified that popular and often edited articles are read
according to four main patterns, and that how an article is read may
change over time. We illustrate how this information can provide
valuable insights to Wikipedia's editor community.
relies on thousands of editors to both contribute articles and
maintain their quality. Over the last years, research has
extensively investigated this group of users while another group of
Wikipedia users, the readers, their preferences and their behavior
have not been much studied. This paper makes this group and its
activities \emph{visible} and \emph{valuable} to Wikipedia's editor
community. We carried out a study on two datasets covering a
13-months period to obtain insights on users preferences and reading
behavior in Wikipedia. We show that the most read articles do not
necessarily correspond to those frequently edited, suggesting some
degree of non-alignment between user reading preferences and
author editing preferences.
We also identified that popular and often edited articles are read
according to four main patterns, and that how an article is read may
change over time. We illustrate how this information can provide
valuable insights to Wikipedia's editor community.