You Are Where You Edit: Locating Wikipedia Contributors Through Edit Histories
author:
Michael D. Lieberman,
Department of Computer Science, University of Maryland
Description
Whether knowingly or otherwise, Wikipedia contributors
reveal their interests and expertise through their
contribution patterns. An analysis of Wikipedia edit
histories shows that it is often possible to associate contributors
with relatively small geographic regions, usually
corresponding to where they were born or where
they presently live. For many contributors, the geographic
coordinates of pages they have edited are tightly
clustered. Results suggest that a wealth of information
about contributors can be gleaned from edit histories.
This illustrates the efficacy of data mining on large,
publicly-available datasets and raises potential privacy
concerns.
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