Wikipedia coverage of death
Death and Wikipedia discusses how Wikipedia editors present the death of public figures.
Wikipedia contains user-generated content, and the Wikipedia community updates Wikipedia articles with information about deaths quickly after people die.[3][4] The Wikipedia articles of recently deceased people often have large spikes in views. For example, the article for designer Kate Spade averaged 2117 views in the 48 hours before her death. In the 48 hours after her death, however, it got 3,417,416, an increase of 161,427%.[5][6][7]
The media has remarked on the site's quick response in updating biographies after the deaths of celebrities such as Michael Jackson[8] and Elizabeth II.[9][10][11]
In 2009 the Wikipedia community adopted new quality control measures to verify information on the biographies of living people, including claims of death.[12]
When a celebrity dies of a disease, then readers may also read about that disease in Wikipedia.[13]
References
- ^ Rauwerda, Annie (September 9, 2022). "Who the hell updated Queen Elizabeth II's Wikipedia page so quickly?". Input. Archived from the original on 20 October 2022. Retrieved 20 October 2022.
- ^ Mannix, Liam (September 13, 2022). "Evidence suggests Wikipedia is accurate and reliable. When are we going to start taking it seriously?". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 20 October 2022.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ Harrison, Stephen (16 August 2018). "Meet the People Who Quickly Update Wikipedia Pages When a Celebrity Like Aretha Franklin Dies". Slate Magazine.
- ^ Thomas, Rhys (5 October 2022). "Inside the world of Wikipedia's deaditors". The Face.
- ^ "Life After Death on Wikipedia". The Pudding. Retrieved 2023-01-14.
- ^ Goldenberg, Russell (August 2018). "Life After Death on Wikipedia". The Pudding.
- ^ Rosen, Rebecca J. (6 February 2013). "If You Want Your Wikipedia Page to Get a TON of Traffic, Die While Performing at the Super Bowl Half-Time Show". The Atlantic.
- ^ Steiner, Thomas; van Hooland, Seth; Summers, Ed (13 May 2013). "MJ no more: using concurrent wikipedia edit spikes with social network plausibility checks for breaking news detection". Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on World Wide Web: 791–794. doi:10.1145/2487788.2488049. S2CID 15540545.
- ^ McNamee, Kai (15 September 2022). "Fastest 'was' in the West: Inside Wikipedia's race to cover the queen's death". NPR.org.
- ^ Lukpat, Alyssa (18 September 2022). "When Queen Elizabeth II Died, Wikipedia's 'Deaditors' Were Ready". Wall Street Journal.
- ^ Parsons, Jeff (9 September 2022). "How Wikipedia responded when news of the Queen's death broke". Metro.
- ^ Cohen, Noam (24 August 2009). "Wikipedia to Limit Changes to Articles on People". The New York Times.
- ^ Mahroum, Naim; Bragazzi, Nicola Luigi; Sharif, Kassem; Gianfredi, Vincenza; Nucci, Daniele; Rosselli, Roberto; Brigo, Francesco; Adawi, Mohammad; Amital, Howard; Watad, Abdulla (June 2018). "Leveraging Google Trends, Twitter, and Wikipedia to Investigate the Impact of a Celebrityʼs Death From Rheumatoid Arthritis". JCR: Journal of Clinical Rheumatology. 24 (4): 188–192. doi:10.1097/RHU.0000000000000692. PMID 29461342. S2CID 3442166.
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