Comments on: Wikiscanner and Wikirage http://www.andrewlih.com/blog/2007/08/31/wikiscanner-and-wikirage/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=wikiscanner-and-wikirage USC professor and author of The Wikipedia Revolution Mon, 30 Jan 2012 17:18:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Enric http://www.andrewlih.com/blog/2007/08/31/wikiscanner-and-wikirage/comment-page-1/#comment-67084 Enric Sat, 01 Sep 2007 11:33:45 +0000 http://www.andrewlih.com/blog/2007/08/31/wikiscanner-and-wikirage/#comment-67084 What I find interesting is that there seems to be a first level of approach to Wikipedia (the reading one) that is generated by let's say (at least) three general levels of interest: (a) cultural entertainment, probably very connected to a digital natives age range (6, 10, 11, 12, 13, 16, 19 and 20), (b) sex "entertainment", from a very masculine point of view (2, 4, 7, 9, and 15) and (c) political or practical knowledge, related to news or world knowledge (1, 3, 5, 8, 14, 17, 18). Looking now at the Top 20 Most Edited list, this last type of content (more related maybe to what one finds in offline encyclopedias) is the one that seems to get more edits (deeper level of participation). One may consider then the other two types of content as a kind of attention attractors (maybe Google-driven), that in some cases lead to more people involved or "getting serious" within the wiki. Although from the complete list at Wikirage there seems to be a general "fight" between (let's say) "light" and "serious" knowledge, like some Wikigroaning comparisons showed some time ago. Or who knows if it all simply suggest a kind of cultural paradigm shift between "light and serious" knowledge :) What I find interesting is that there seems to be a first level of approach to Wikipedia (the reading one) that is generated by let’s say (at least) three general levels of interest: (a) cultural entertainment, probably very connected to a digital natives age range (6, 10, 11, 12, 13, 16, 19 and 20), (b) sex “entertainment”, from a very masculine point of view (2, 4, 7, 9, and 15) and (c) political or practical knowledge, related to news or world knowledge (1, 3, 5, 8, 14, 17, 18).

Looking now at the Top 20 Most Edited list, this last type of content (more related maybe to what one finds in offline encyclopedias) is the one that seems to get more edits (deeper level of participation). One may consider then the other two types of content as a kind of attention attractors (maybe Google-driven), that in some cases lead to more people involved or “getting serious” within the wiki.

Although from the complete list at Wikirage there seems to be a general “fight” between (let’s say) “light” and “serious” knowledge, like some Wikigroaning comparisons showed some time ago. Or who knows if it all simply suggest a kind of cultural paradigm shift between “light and serious” knowledge :)

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