"Computational Methods for Historical Research on Wikipedia’s Archives" by Jonathan Cohen
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e-Research: A Journal of Undergraduate Work

Jonathan Cohen

Abstract

This paper presents a novel study of geographic information implicit in the English Wikipedia archive. This project demonstrates a method to extract data from the archive with data mining, map the global distribution of Wikipedia editors through geocoding in GIS, and proceed with a spatial analysis of Wikipedia use in metropolitan cities.

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