Wikipedia Editor Analysis
A network analysis project that scrapes Wikipedia revision history across trending and controversial topics to determine whether edits are dominated by a small subset of editors.
This project used the Wikipedia API to scrape detailed revision history data across a variety of trending and controversial topics. After collecting the data, we performed network analysis to understand the structure of the editor community and how contribution patterns vary across different types of content.
Our primary hypothesis was that most edits on a given Wikipedia page come from just a small subset of editors rather than a broad, distributed community of contributors. Through our analysis, this hypothesis was confirmed — a concentrated group of editors is responsible for the majority of revisions on controversial topics.
The analysis was primarily conducted in Python, and we created data visualizations including network graphs to illustrate the relationships between editors and the pages they contribute to, revealing the hidden power structures within Wikipedia's editing ecosystem.