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Leave or Stay: The Departure Dynamics of Wikipedia Editors

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Advanced Data Mining and Applications (ADMA 2012)

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In this paper, we investigate how Wikipedia editors leave the community, i.e., become inactive, from the following three aspects: (1) how long Wikipedia editors will stay active in editing; (2) which Wikipedia editors are likely to leave; and (3) what reasons would make Wikipedia editors leave. The statistical models built on Wikipedia edit log datasets provide insights about the sustainable growth of Wikipedia.

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  1. DCSIS, Birkbeck, University of London, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HX, UK

    Dell Zhang, Karl Prior & Mark Levene

  2. Microsoft Research FUSE Labs, One Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA, 98052-6399, USA

    Robert Mao

  3. Wikimedia Foundation, 149 New Montgomery Street, 3rd Floor, San Francisco, CA, 94105, USA

    Diederik van Liere

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  1. School of Computer Science, Fudan University, Handan Road 220, 200433, Shanghai, China

    Shuigeng Zhou

  2. Chinese Academy of Sciences, Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Dongguancun East Road 55, 100190, Beijing, China

    Songmao Zhang

  3. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota, Union Street SE 200, 55455, Minneapolis, MN, USA

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Zhang, D., Prior, K., Levene, M., Mao, R., van Liere, D. (2012). Leave or Stay: The Departure Dynamics of Wikipedia Editors. In: Zhou, S., Zhang, S., Karypis, G. (eds) Advanced Data Mining and Applications. ADMA 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 7713. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35527-1_1

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