@inproceedings{9ef10f128cc84da487151bdaf72abbbc,
title = "Temporal analysis of activity patterns of editors in collaborative mapping project of openstreetmap",
abstract = "In the recent yearsWikis have become an attractive platform for social studies of the human behaviour. Containing mil- lions records of edits across the globe, collaborative systems such as Wikipedia have allowed researchers to gain a bet- Ter understanding of editors participation and their activity patterns. However, contributions made to Geo-wikis wiki- based collaborative mapping projects dier from systems such as Wikipedia in a fundamental way due to spatial di- mension of the content that limits the contributors to a set of those who posses local knowledge about a specic area and therefore cross-platform studies and comparisons are required to build a comprehensive image of online open col- laboration phenomena. In this work, we study the temporal behavioural pattern of OpenStreetMap editors, a successful example of geo-wiki, for two European capital cities. We categorise dierent type of temporal patterns and report on the historical trend within a period of 7 years of the project age. We also draw a comparison with the previously ob- served editing activity patterns of Wikipedia. Categories and Subject Descriptors H.2.8 [Database Management]: Database Applications Spatial Databases and GIS; H.5.3 [Group and Orga- nization Interfaces]: Collaborative computing, computer- supported cooperative work General Terms Human Factors, Measurement.",
keywords = "Circadian pattern, Eigenbehaviour, Geo-wiki, Mass collaboration, Openstreetmap, Principal component analysis, Wikipedia",
author = "Taha Yasseri and Giovanni Quattrone and Afra Mashhadi",
year = "2013",
doi = "10.1145/2491055.2491068",
language = "English",
isbn = "9781450318525",
series = "Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Open Collaboration, WikiSym + OpenSym 2013",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Open Collaboration, WikiSym + OpenSym 2013",
note = "9th International Symposium on Open Collaboration, WikiSym + OpenSym 2013 ; Conference date: 05-08-2013 Through 07-08-2013",
}