Edición de contenidos en un entorno colaborativo: el caso de la Wikipedia en español

Zazo-Rodríguez, Ángel-F., G. Figuerola, Carlos and Alonso-Berrocal, José-Luis Edición de contenidos en un entorno colaborativo: el caso de la Wikipedia en español. Scire, 2015, vol. 21, n. 2, pp. 57-67. [Journal article (Paginated)]

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English abstract

This work uses the database backup dumps that collect content and history reviews of the encyclopae- dic articles of Spanish Wikipedia since its creation, in order to characterize and understand the underlying activity of the editors in content creation. Some quan- titative characteristics of articles are analyzed: length, assigned categories and in-links and out-links to other articles. Some characteristics have similar patterns to the ones found in webometric studies. The categories system, even though is functionally well built, is not used properly by the editors, which undermines the access to knowledge. We have also obtained patterns of the editors’ activity related to article creation, con- tent reviewing, activity days, reversions, vandalism, and authors’ countries of origin. We have found that an important part of Wikipedia lies on a few number of users who oversee the new content, aided by robots that facilitate the process. In general, content creation is performed by two different kinds of users: small individual contributions of a great legion of users and a large number of contributions made by a small group of extremely active users. For many users we have obtained the origin country, which has allowed us to know the contributions procedence.

Spanish abstract

Se analizan las características y la actividad que los usuarios editores de la Wikipedia en español realizan en el proceso de creación de contenidos. Tras volcar los datos de los artículos enciclopédicos, se han analizado aspectos cuantitativos de los artículos, como su longitud, enlaces entrantes y salientes entre ellos, y categorías a las que pueden ser asignados. En algunos casos, esas características siguen patrones similares a los encontrados en estudios webmétricos. El sistema de categorías, pese a que funcionalmente está bien constituido, no se utiliza de manera adecuada por los usuarios editores, lo cual menoscaba una buena forma de acceso al conocimiento. En cuanto a las ediciones que realizan los usuarios, se han obtenido patrones de actividad relacionados con la creación de artículos, la revisión de contenidos, días de actividad, reversiones, vandalismo y país de origen. Una parte importante del funcionamiento de Wikipedia recae en unos pocos usuarios que supervisan los nuevos contenidos, ayudados por robots que facilitan el proceso. En general, la creación de contenidos se lleva a cabo por dos grupos diferentes de usuarios: pequeñas contribuciones individuales de una gran legión de usuarios, y un gran número de contribuciones que realizan un reducido grupo de usuarios muy activos. Se ha obtenido el país de origen de muchos usuarios, lo cual ha permitido contabilizar las contribuciones realizadas desde cada uno de ellos.

Item type: Journal article (Paginated)
Keywords: Wikipedia; edición colaborativa; estudios de usuarios; Organización del conocimento
Subjects: B. Information use and sociology of information > BG. Information dissemination and diffusion.
C. Users, literacy and reading. > CB. User studies.
Depositing user: Carlos G. Figuerola
Date deposited: 18 May 2016 21:24
Last modified: 18 May 2016 21:24
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10760/29276

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