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2007 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Visualizing Activity on Wikipedia with Chromograms
Authors : Martin Wattenberg, Fernanda B. Viégas, Katherine Hollenbach
Published in: Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2007
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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To investigate how participants in peer production systems allocate their time, we examine editing activity on Wikipedia, the well-known online encyclopedia. To analyze the huge edit histories of the site’s administrators we introduce a visualization technique, the chromogram, that can display very long textual sequences through a simple color coding scheme. Using chromograms we describe a set of characteristic editing patterns. In addition to confirming known patterns, such reacting to vandalism events, we identify a distinct class of organized systematic activities. We discuss how both reactive and systematic strategies shed light on self-allocation of effort in Wikipedia, and how they may pertain to other peer-production systems.