Empirical Analysis of User Participation in Online Communities: the Case of Wikipedia
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We study the distribution of the activity period of users in five of the largest localized versions of the free, online encyclopedia Wikipedia. We find it to be consistent with a mixture of two truncated log-normal distributions. Using this model, the temporal evolution of these systems can be analyzed, showing that the statistical description is consistent over time.
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