Wikipedia Editorial and Viewership Data on Aircraft Crashes

Ruth García-Gavilanes analyzed Wikipedia transactional data from English and Spanish editions to study attention dynamics around aircraft incidents and accidents. The dataset captures editorial activities and article viewership, analyzing how attention is influenced by parameters like number of deaths, airline region, and event locale and date. The study, published in 2020, finds evidence of attention bias based on airline region and a universal fast decay of attention within about a week.

Use Cases

• Analyze the correlation between the number of deaths in an aircraft crash and the level of attention from Wikipedia editors and visitors.
• Compare editorial coverage and viewership patterns between English and Spanish Wikipedia editions based on airline region.
• Model the rate and time span of attention decay for aircraft crash articles, independent of the number of deaths.
• Investigate how event locale and date parameters influence the initial attention spike in Wikipedia viewership data.

Strengths

• Data derived from Wikipedia transactional logs, providing a large-scale, real-world record of collective attention.
• Analysis spans two major language editions (English and Spanish), enabling cross-cultural comparison of attention biases.
• Study investigates multiple influence parameters including number of deaths, airline region, event locale, and date.

Limitations

• The specific dataset size, row count, and column structure are not provided in the input.
• Data is limited to Wikipedia activity, which may not represent broader media or public attention patterns.
• Temporal coverage is not explicitly stated, though the analysis was published in 2020.

Provenance

Source

Ruth García-Gavilanes, via the Dryad repository.

Collection Method

Gathered from Wikipedia transactional data, including editorial activities and article viewership logs.

Freshness

Last updated on 2020-06-24.

Geography

Global, with analysis focused on English and Spanish Wikipedia editions.