The Geographic Nature of Wikipedia Authorship

Hardy, Darren

doi:10.1007/978-94-007-4587-2_11

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“…Some work has also been conducted about the variable amounts and types of representation of places in different languages. By looking at anonymous edits to Wikipedia Hardy et al (2012) and Hardy (2013), found that there is generally a decreasing likelihood of edits to geotagged articles with increasing distance between editor and article.…”

Section: Promises Of Changing Connectivitymentioning

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Uneven Geographies of User-Generated Information: Patterns of Increasing Informational Poverty

Graham

Hogan

Straumann

et al. 2014

Annals of the Association of American Geographers

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Geographies of codified knowledge have always been characterized by stark core-periphery patterns: with some parts of the world at the center of global voice and representation, and many others invisible or unheard. However, many have pointed to the potential for radical change as digital divides are bridged and 2.5 billion people are now online. With a focus on Wikipedia, which is one of the world's most visible, most used, and most powerful repositories of user-generated content, we investigate whether we are now seeing fundamentally different patterns of knowledge production. Even though Wikipedia consists of a massive cloud of geographic information about millions of events and places around the globe put together by millions of hours of human labor, it remains that the encyclopedia is characterized by uneven and clustered geographies: there is simply not a lot of content about much of the world. The paper then moves to describe the factors that explain these patterns, showing that while just a few conditions can explain much of the variance in geographies of information some parts of the world remain well below their expected values. These findings indicate that better connectivity is only a necessary, but not a sufficient condition for the presence of volunteered geographic information about a place. We conclude by discussing the remaining social, economic, political, regulatory, and infrastructural barriers that continue to disadvantage many of the world's informational peripheries. The paper ultimately shows that, despite many hopes that a democratization of connectivity will spur a concomitant democratization of information production, internet connectivity is not a panacea, and can only ever be one part of a broader strategy to deepen the informational layers of places.

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Uneven Geographies of User-Generated Information: Patterns of Increasing Informational Poverty

Graham

Hogan

Straumann

et al. 2014

Annals of the Association of American Geographers

180

142

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“…Moreover, the geographic representativeness of geosocial media vary widely both among different cities and within cities [14]. Several studies have reported the geographical unevenness of volunteered geographic information, in that some areas may be represented by large amounts of data, while other areas very few [57][58][59]. Varying demographic profiles across geographic areas may also contribute to the geographical unevenness of user-generated content.…”

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Understanding Public Opinions from Geosocial Media

Zhang

Feick

2016

IJGI

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Increasingly, social media data are linked to locations through embedded GPS coordinates. Many local governments are showing interest in the potential to repurpose these firsthand geo-data to gauge spatial and temporal dynamics of public opinions in ways that complement information collected through traditional public engagement methods. Using these geosocial data is not without challenges since they are usually unstructured, vary in quality, and often require considerable effort to extract information that is relevant to local governments' needs from large data volumes. Understanding local relevance requires development of both data processing methods and their use in empirical studies. This paper addresses this latter need through a case study that demonstrates how spatially-referenced Twitter data can shed light on citizens' transportation and planning concerns. A web-based toolkit that integrates text processing methods is used to model Twitter data collected for the Region of Waterloo (Ontario, Canada) between March 2014 and July 2015 and assess citizens' concerns related to the planning and construction of a new light rail transit line. The study suggests that geosocial media can help identify geographies of public perceptions concerning public facilities and services and have potential to complement other methods of gauging public sentiment.

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Writing the World in 301 Languages: A Political Geography of the Online Encyclopedia Wikipedia

Mamadouh¹

2019

Handbook of the Changing World Language Map

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The Geographic Nature of Wikipedia Authorship

Cited by 5 publications

References 72 publications

Uneven Geographies of User-Generated Information: Patterns of Increasing Informational Poverty

Uneven Geographies of User-Generated Information: Patterns of Increasing Informational Poverty

Understanding Public Opinions from Geosocial Media

Writing the World in 301 Languages: A Political Geography of the Online Encyclopedia Wikipedia

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