%0 Book Section %1 citeulike:1825065 %A Wattenberg, Martin %A Viégas, Fernanda %A Hollenbach, Katherine %D 2007 %J Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2007 %K patterns, temporal, visualization %P 272--287 %R 10.1007/978-3-540-74800-7\_23 %T Visualizing Activity on Wikipedia with Chromograms %U http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-74800-7\_23 %X To investigate how participants in peer production systems allocate their time, we examine editing activity on Wikipedia, the well-known online encyclopedia. To analyze the huge edit histories of the site's administrators we introduce a visualization technique, the chromogram, that can display very long textual sequences through a simple color coding scheme. Using chromograms we describe a set of characteristic editing patterns. In addition to confirming known patterns, such reacting to vandalism events, we identify a distinct class of organized systematic activities. We discuss how both reactive and systematic strategies shed light on self-allocation of effort in Wikipedia, and how they may pertain to other peer-production systems.

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