Department of Theoretical Physics, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Budapest, Hungary.
PLoS One. 2012;7(1):e30091. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0030091. Epub 2012 Jan 17.
Wikipedia (WP) as a collaborative, dynamical system of humans is an appropriate subject of social studies. Each single action of the members of this society, i.e., editors, is well recorded and accessible. Using the cumulative data of 34 Wikipedias in different languages, we try to characterize and find the universalities and differences in temporal activity patterns of editors. Based on this data, we estimate the geographical distribution of editors for each WP in the globe. Furthermore we also clarify the differences among different groups of WPs, which originate in the variance of cultural and social features of the communities of editors.
维基百科（WP）作为一个由人类组成的协作、动态系统，是社会研究的一个恰当主题。这个社会的每个成员的单一行为，即编辑者，都有很好的记录和可访问性。我们使用来自不同语言的 34 个维基百科的累积数据，试图描绘和发现编辑者的时间活动模式的普遍性和差异性。基于这些数据，我们估计了编辑者在全球每个 WP 中的地理分布。此外，我们还阐明了源于编辑者社区的文化和社会特征差异的不同 WP 群体之间的差异。
