Oxford Internet Institute

• Dr Han-Teng Liao

  Oxford Internet Institute

• Dr Bernie Hogan

  Oxford Internet Institute

• Professor Mark Graham

  Oxford Internet Institute

• Dr Scott A. Hale

  Oxford Internet Institute

• Dr Heather Ford

  Oxford Internet Institute

Articles

• Graham, M. (2010) Neogeography and the Palimpsests of Place. Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie 101 (4) 422-436.
• Graham, M., Zook, M. and Boulton, A. (2012) Augmented Reality in the Urban Environment: contested content and the duplicity of code. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 38 (3) 464-479.
• Liao, H. (2009) Conflict and Consensus in the Chinese version of Wikipedia. IEEE Technology and Society Magazine 28(2) 49–56. doi:10.1109/MTS.2009.932799.
• Liao, H.-T., and Petzold, T. (2011) Analysing geo-linguistic dynamics of the World Wide Web: The use of cartograms and network analysis to understand linguistic development in Wikipedia. Cultural Science 3(2).
• Mestyán, M., Yasseri, T., and Kertész, J. (2013) Early Prediction of Movie Box Office Success based on Wikipedia Activity Big Data. PLoS ONE 8 (8) e71226.
• Petzold, T., Liao, H.-T., Hartley, J., and Potts, J. (2012) A world map of knowledge in the making: Wikipedia’s inter-language linkage as a dependency explorer of global knowledge accumulation. Leonardo: Art, Science and Technology 45 (3) 284–284. doi:10.1162/LEON_a_00376
• Samoilenko, A. and Yasseri, T. (2014) The distorted mirror of Wikipedia: a quantitative analysis of Wikipedia coverage of academics. EPJ Data Science 3 (1). doi:10.1140/epjds20
• Sumi, R., Yasseri, T., Rung, A., Kornai, A., and Kertész, J. (2011) Characterization and prediction of Wikipedia edit wars. Proceedings of the ACM WebSci’11, Koblenz, Germany, June 2011.
• Sumi, R., Yasseri, T., Rung, A., Kornai, A., and Kertész, J. (2011) Edit wars in Wikipedia. IEEE Third International Conference on Social Computing (SocialCom), 9-11 October 2011, Boston, MA. pp. 724-727.
• Yasseri, T., Kornai, A., and Kertész, J. (2012) A practical approach to language complexity: a Wikipedia case study. PLoS ONE 7(11): e48386.
• Yasseri, T., Sumi, R., and Kertész, J. (2012) Circadian patterns of Wikipedia editorial activity: A demographic analysis. PLoS ONE 7(1): e30091.
• Yasseri, T., Sumi, R., Rung, A., Kornai, A., and Kertész, J. (2012) Dynamics of conflicts in Wikipedia. PLoS ONE 7(6): e38869.

Chapters

• Graham, M. (2011) Wiki Space: Palimpsests and the Politics of Exclusion. In: G.Lovink and N.Tkacz (eds) Critical Point of View: A Wikipedia Reader. Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures.

Presentations

• Sumi, R., Yasseri, T., Rung, A., Kornai, A., and Kertesz, J. (2011) Edit Wars in Wikipedia. 3rd IEEE International Conference on Social Computing, Boston, MA, October 2011.
• Yasseri, T. (2010) Some linguistic-based and temporal analysis on Wikipedia. 7th Vienna central European conference and COST MP0801 workshop, Vienna, Austria, November 2010.
• Yasseri, T. (2010) Study of social complexity in web-based communities: the case of Wikipedia. Complex Network Seminar, BECS, Aalto University, Espoo, Finland, June 2010.
• Yasseri, T. (2011) Characterization and detection of Wikipedia editorial wars. International Workshop on Coping with Crises in Complex Socio-Economic Systems, Zurich, Switzerland, June 2011.
• Yasseri, T. (2011) Circadian and weekly patterns of Wikipedia editors’ activity. Complex Network Seminar, BECS, Aalto University, Espoo, Finland, July 2011.
• Yasseri, T. (2012) Lessons from Anti-Collaboration Networks in Wikipedia Wars. The Nuffield Social Network Analysis Seminar Oxford, UK, November 2012.
• Yasseri, T. (2012) Revert Network of Wikipedia Editors in Editorial Wars. Aalto Complex Networks Factory Workshop, Porvoo, Finland, June 2012.
• Yasseri, T. (2012) Who Writes Wikipedia, Data-driven Modeling of Wikipedia Editorial Activity. Spring meeting of the German Physical Society Berlin, Germany, March 2012.
• Yasseri, T., Sumi, R., Rung, A., Kornai, A., and Kertesz, J. (2011) Conflict and Cooperation in Wikipedia. Spring meeting of the German Physics Society, Dresden, Germany, March 2011.
• Yasseri, T., Sumi, R., Rung, A., Kornai, A., and Kertesz, J. (2012) Fighting and Writing: Conflicts and Editing Wars in Wikipedia. Spring meeting of the German Physics Society, Berlin, Germany, March 2012.

Theses

• Loubser, M. (2010) Organisational Mechanisms in Peer Productions: The Case of Wikipedia. DPhil Thesis, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford.

• The Intelligence of Wikipedia

  Duration: 00:53:51

  Date: 11 July 2005

  Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales explains the history and growth of Wikipedia, with a particular focus on the internal community ... Read More The Intelligence of Wikipedia

• Book Launch for Jonathan Zittrain’s “The Future of the Internet”

  Duration: 00:33:24

  Date: 24 April 2008

  Jonathan Zittrain discusses the future of the Internet. The Internet's current trajectory is one of lost opportunity: its salvation, ... Read More Book Launch for Jonathan Zittrain’s “The Future of the Internet”

• Social Networking Conference. Session 3: Businesses and Online Social Networks

  Duration: 01:06:40

  Date: 7 April 2008

  A discussion of businesses and online social networks, covering businesses and online social networks: 'Social networking and business practice: ... Read More Social Networking Conference. Session 3: Businesses and Online Social Networks

• Wikipedia, Kenya and Code

  Duration: 00:08:12

  Date: 17 January 2013

  Heather Ford presents at the Microsoft Research 2013 Social Computing Symposium in the panel 'Off the Radar: Stories, Insight, ... Read More Wikipedia, Kenya and Code

• Managing sources during high volume news events

  Duration: 01:28:26

  Date: 13 July 2012

  Heather Ford presents at Wikimania 2012 (Washington, DC) in the panel 'Wikipedia in the Twitter Age' (starts 00:38:00).

• Armies in the lab: Studying conflicts and opinion clashes in Wikipedia

  Duration: 00:25:09

  Date: 1 June 2014

  Taha Yasseri's talk at Europe's first Computational Social Science conference at the University of Warwick in June 2014, hosted ... Read More Armies in the lab: Studying conflicts and opinion clashes in Wikipedia

• Big Data in Society: OII MSc Option Course

  Duration: 00:05:05

  Date: 1 June 2015

  This option course for the OII MSc in "Social Science of the Internet" moves beyond the hype to critically ... Read More Big Data in Society: OII MSc Option Course

• Wikipedia: User Generating the World

  Duration: 00:12:38

  Date: 15 January 2016

  Presentation on Mark Graham's Wikipedia research, on the occasion of Wikipedia's 15th Birthday.

• Cultures of Wikipedia

  Duration: 00:10:26

  Date: 15 January 2016

  Presentation on Bernie Hogan's Wikipedia research, on the occasion of Wikipedia's 15th Birthday.

• Fact Factories: How Wikipedia’s Logics Determine What Facts Are Represented Online

  Duration: 00:11:28

  Date: 15 January 2016

  Presentation on Heather Ford's Wikipedia research, on the occasion of Wikipedia's 15th Birthday.

• Geographies of Knowledge in Wikipedia

  Duration: 00:13:12

  Date: 15 January 2016

  Presentation on Stefano De Sabbata's Wikipedia research, on the occasion of Wikipedia's 15th Birthday.

• How Much Interaction Is There Between Wikipedia’s Language Editions?

  Duration: 00:15:01

  Date: 15 January 2016

  Presentation on Scott Hale's Wikipedia research, on the occasion of Wikipedia's 15th Birthday.

• Social Aspects of Collaborative Editing on Wikipedia: Revenge, Conflict, and War

  Duration: 00:16:16

  Date: 15 January 2016

  Presentation on Taha Yasseri's Wikipedia research, on the occasion of Wikipedia's 15th Birthday.

• Computer bots are more like humans than you might think, having fights lasting years

  24 February 2017

  Researchers say ‘benevolent bots’, otherwise known as software robots, that are designed to improve articles on Wikipedia sometimes have online ‘fights’ over content that can continue for years.

• Mathematical model ‘describes’ how online conflicts are resolved

  20 February 2013

  Researchers have produced a mathematical model to describe how conflicting opinions are resolved over articles that appear on Wikipedia, the collaboratively-edited encyclopaedia.

• Geography, Big Data, and Augmented Realities

  1 August 2012

  New digital dimensions of place profoundly affect the ways that we interact with our urban environments. Dr Mark Graham leads a research project to interrogate these virtual layers of the city, asking what they are, where they are, and why they matter.

• OII Recognised as Educational Institution of the Year at Wikimedia UK’s Annual Conference

  15 June 2012

  The OII has been recognised as Educational Institution of the Year at the "UK Wikimedian of the Year" awards (12 May 2012). The award was made largely in recognition of the work by OII Research Fellow Dr Mark Graham to map and visualise Wikipedia data.

• Our knowledge of how automated agents interact is rather poor (and that could be a problem)

  Date Published: 14 June 2017 - 4:12 pm

  Authors: Taha Yasseri

  Wikipedia uses editing bots to clean articles: but what happens when their interactions go bad? Image of “Nomade”, a sculpture in downtown Des Moines ... Read More Our knowledge of how automated agents interact is rather poor (and that could be a problem)

• The interplay between extremism and communication in a collaborative project

  Date Published: 30 March 2017 - 2:23 pm

  Authors: Taha Yasseri

  Collaboration is among the most fundamental social behaviours.  The Internet and particularly the Web have been originally developed to foster large scale collaboration among ... Read More The interplay between extremism and communication in a collaborative project

• Even good bots fight and a typology of Internet bots

  Date Published: 26 February 2017 - 6:17 pm

  Authors: Taha Yasseri

  Our new paper titled “Even good bots fight: The case of Wikipedia” has finally appeared on PLOS One. There are two things that I ... Read More Even good bots fight and a typology of Internet bots

• Can we predict electoral outcomes from Wikipedia traffic?

  Date Published: 6 December 2016 - 3:34 pm

  Authors: Taha Yasseri

  2016 presidential candidate Donald Trump in a residential backyard near Jordan Creek Parkway and Cody Drive in West Des Moines, Iowa, with lights and ... Read More Can we predict electoral outcomes from Wikipedia traffic?

• Even Good Bots Fight

  Date Published: 5 December 2016 - 10:36 am

  Authors: Milena Tsvetkova

  In recent years, there has been a huge increase in the number of bots online, varying from web crawlers for search engines, to chatbots ... Read More Even Good Bots Fight

• New Paper: Personal clashes and Status in Wikipedia Edit Wars

  Date Published: 4 November 2016 - 3:08 pm

  Authors: Milena Tsvetkova

  Our study on disagreement in Wikipedia was just published in Scientific Reports (impact factor 5.2). In this study, we find that disagreement and conflict ... Read More New Paper: Personal clashes and Status in Wikipedia Edit Wars

• Edit wars! Examining networks of negative social interaction

  Date Published: 4 November 2016 - 10:05 am

  Authors: Taha Yasseri

  Network of all reverts done in the English language Wikipedia within one day (January 15, 2010). Read the full article for details. While network ... Read More Edit wars! Examining networks of negative social interaction

• Biases in Online Attention; Whose life matters more

  Date Published: 2 November 2016 - 9:14 pm

  Authors: Taha Yasseri

  This has become a common knowledge that certain lives matter more, when it comes to media coverage and public attention to natural or manmade disasters. ... Read More Biases in Online Attention; Whose life matters more

• The geography of Wikipedia edits

  Date Published: 28 September 2016 - 8:08 am

  Authors: Mark Graham

  Wikipedia has a geography. This is something that my colleagues and I have explored previously in a variety of scholarship. For a new book ... Read More The geography of Wikipedia edits

• Understanding voters’ information seeking behaiviour

  Date Published: 20 June 2016 - 10:30 pm

  Authors: Taha Yasseri

  Jonathan and I recently published a paper titled “Wikipedia traffic data and electoral prediction: towards theoretically informed models“ in EPJ Data Science. In this ... Read More Understanding voters’ information seeking behaiviour

• Semantic Cities: Coded Geopolitics and the Rise of the Semantic Web.

  Date Published: 12 May 2016 - 1:17 pm

  Authors: Mark Graham

  In order to understand how the city’s contested political contexts are embedded into its digital layers, we traced how the city is represented on ... Read More Semantic Cities: Coded Geopolitics and the Rise of the Semantic Web.

• Kapuścinski Public Lecture – “Uneven Geographies of Power and Participation in the Internet Era”

  Date Published: 10 November 2015 - 3:54 pm

  Authors: Mark Graham

  I recently had the opportunity to give a Kapuścinski public lecture titled “Uneven Geographies of Power and Participation in the Internet Era.” You can watch the ... Read More Kapuścinski Public Lecture – “Uneven Geographies of Power and Participation in the Internet Era”

• Semantic Cities

  Date Published: 5 November 2015 - 11:50 am

  Authors: Heather Ford

  Google results from a search for ‘Jerusalem’, 5 Nov. 2011 If you Google the city ‘Jerusalem’ today, you will most likely see something like ... Read More Semantic Cities

• “E-society and E-citizens: from Technology Transfer to Human Empowerment and Development” – Kapuściński Development Lecture

  Date Published: 28 October 2015 - 9:26 am

  Authors: Mark Graham

  I’m delighted to be giving a Kapuściński Development Lecture on Nov 9. The talk will be titled ‘E-society and E-citizens: from Technology Transfer to Human ... Read More “E-society and E-citizens: from Technology Transfer to Human Empowerment and Development” – Kapuściński Development Lecture

• 3D printed internet geographies

  Date Published: 30 September 2015 - 12:44 pm

  Authors: Mark Graham

  The Datasthesia team recently turned one of our digital maps into a material printed object. They also kindly shared their files so that we ... Read More 3D printed internet geographies

• New Paper: Information Geographies and Geographies of Information

  Date Published: 29 September 2015 - 11:36 am

  Authors: Mark Graham

  The latest issue of New Geographies is now out, and contains an exciting collection of papers: My contribution to the issue is titled ‘Information Geographies and ... Read More New Paper: Information Geographies and Geographies of Information

• Our Wikipedia Research in the News

  Date Published: 27 September 2015 - 7:06 pm

  Authors: Mark Graham

  Our research into biases in voice and power in Wikipedia has recently been published in the Annals of the Association of American Geographers. What ... Read More Our Wikipedia Research in the News

• New publication – Digital Divisions of Labor and Informational Magnetism: Mapping Participation in Wikipedia

  Date Published: 7 September 2015 - 4:51 pm

  Authors: Mark Graham

  Network of Wikipedia edits between world regions, normalised for each target region. The edges are coloured according to the source region. Percentages denote self-edits ... Read More New publication – Digital Divisions of Labor and Informational Magnetism: Mapping Participation in Wikipedia

• “Towards a study of information geographies” A full list of our maps

  Date Published: 17 August 2015 - 8:14 am

  Authors: Mark Graham

  We very recently published a paper that brings together a lot of the internet mapping work that we’ve been doing: Graham, M., S. De ... Read More “Towards a study of information geographies” A full list of our maps

• Towards a study of information geographies. Here is our full collection of maps

  Date Published: 17 August 2015 - 8:02 am

  Authors: Mark Graham

  We very recently published a paper that brings together a lot of the internet mapping work that we’ve been doing: Graham, M., S. De Sabbata, ... Read More Towards a study of information geographies. Here is our full collection of maps

• New paper – Towards a study of information geographies:(im)mutable augmentations and a mapping of the geographies of information

  Date Published: 14 August 2015 - 4:29 pm

  Authors: Mark Graham

  Our research group spends a lot of time mapping the internet and the digital information that flows within it. So we decided to attempt ... Read More New paper – Towards a study of information geographies:(im)mutable augmentations and a mapping of the geographies of information

• 互联网地理：数据阴影和数字分工

  Date Published: 7 August 2015 - 3:36 pm

  Authors: Mark Graham

  I recently had the opportunity to give a talk to a visiting Chinese delegation to Oxford. The hosts kindly translated my entire slide deck ... Read More 互联网地理：数据阴影和数字分工

• new publication: Wikipedia Arabe et la Construction Collective du Savoir

  Date Published: 10 June 2015 - 1:02 pm

  Authors: Mark Graham

    A chapter that I co-authored with Ilhem Allagui and Bernie Hogan has just been published in the book ‘Wikipedia Arabe et la Construction ... Read More new publication: Wikipedia Arabe et la Construction Collective du Savoir

• “The digital language divide” – our research featured in The Guardian

  Date Published: 29 May 2015 - 10:01 am

  Authors: Mark Graham

  The Guardian has just published a long piece about The Digital Language Divide. It features a lot of our work into internet and information ... Read More “The digital language divide” – our research featured in The Guardian

• Multilingualism research featured in The Guardian

  Date Published: 28 May 2015 - 4:36 pm

  Authors: Scott A. Hale

  A recent article in the Guardian newspaper by Holly Yong surveys much research about online language divides, including my work on multilingualism and cross-language ... Read More Multilingualism research featured in The Guardian

• Social Media + Elections: A Recap

  Date Published: 12 May 2015 - 9:18 am

  Authors: Eve Ahearn

  From Jonathan Bright and Scott Hale’s blog post on Twitter Use. In the run-up to the general election we conducted a number of investigations ... Read More Social Media + Elections: A Recap

• New Video – ‘Code, Content, and Control: Global Geographies of Digital Participation and Representation’

  Date Published: 11 May 2015 - 9:54 am

  Authors: Mark Graham

  The Open University has just posted a webcast presentation of our paper due to be delivered at ICCG 2015 this July. Titled “Code, Content, ... Read More New Video – ‘Code, Content, and Control: Global Geographies of Digital Participation and Representation’

• Could social media forecast political movements?

  Date Published: 8 May 2015 - 5:21 pm

  Authors: Jonathan Bright

  GE2015 turned out to be a bad night for some. Beyond the obvious political parties, the reputation of polling firms took a big hit: ... Read More Could social media forecast political movements?

• Which parties were most read on Wikipedia?

  Date Published: 8 May 2015 - 1:23 am

  Authors: Jonathan Bright

  Taha and Stefano previously looked at the distribution of Wikipedia pages by candidate. These pages are much more patchy than Twitter handles: only in ... Read More Which parties were most read on Wikipedia?

• Wikipedia readership around the UK general election

  Date Published: 4 May 2015 - 10:13 pm

  Authors: Taha Yasseri

  I already have written about the Wikipedia-Shapps story. So, that is not the main topic of this post! But when that topic was still hot, some ... Read More Wikipedia readership around the UK general election

• Does anyone read Wikipedia around the election time?

  Date Published: 4 May 2015 - 10:04 pm

  Authors: Taha Yasseri

  I already have written about the Wikipedia-Shapps story. So, that is not the main topic of this post! But when that topic was still hot, some ... Read More Does anyone read Wikipedia around the election time?

• Elections and Social Media Presence of the Candidates

  Date Published: 3 May 2015 - 12:20 pm

  Authors: Taha Yasseri

  Some have called the forthcoming UK general election a Social Media Election. It might be a bit of exaggeration, but there is no doubt that both ... Read More Elections and Social Media Presence of the Candidates

• Online presence of the General Election Candidates: Labour wins Twitter while Tories take Wikipedia

  Date Published: 3 May 2015 - 12:17 pm

  Authors: Taha Yasseri

  Some have called the forthcoming UK general election a Social Media Election. It might be a bit of exaggeration, but there is no doubt that both ... Read More Online presence of the General Election Candidates: Labour wins Twitter while Tories take Wikipedia

• Vis-à-Wik: a visual analytics tool for Wikipedia analysis

  Date Published: 27 April 2015 - 3:47 pm

  Authors: Mark Graham

  Further to a short paper I wrote with Arzu, Kathryn, Scott, and Ralph (see Collaborative Visualizations for Wikipedia Critique and Activism), I started working on Vis-à-Wik, a simple online ... Read More Vis-à-Wik: a visual analytics tool for Wikipedia analysis

• Everyone’s Reading About Greece – European Language Political Wikipedia

  Date Published: 25 April 2015 - 9:39 pm

  Authors: Eve Ahearn

  By Eve Ahearn and Taha Yasseri. Reading niche political party Wikipedia pages, as one does when working on the Social Election Prediction project, one might wonder if ... Read More Everyone’s Reading About Greece – European Language Political Wikipedia

• Wikipedia and Shapps: Sockpuppetry, Conflict of Interest, or None?

  Date Published: 23 April 2015 - 3:14 pm

  Authors: Taha Yasseri

  Will the real Grant Shapps please stand up? ViciousCritic/Totally Socks, (CC BY-NC-SA) You must have heard about the recent accusation of Grant Shapps by ... Read More Wikipedia and Shapps: Sockpuppetry, Conflict of Interest, or None?

• The MPs whose Wikipedia pages have been edited from inside parliament

  Date Published: 21 April 2015 - 5:05 pm

  Authors: Josh Cowls

  Grant Shapps is in the headlines after being accused of self-serving edits made to his own entry on Wikipedia, as well as unflattering changes made to ... Read More The MPs whose Wikipedia pages have been edited from inside parliament

• A Brief History of Political Wikipedia

  Date Published: 16 April 2015 - 12:37 pm

  Authors: Eve Ahearn

  Wikipedia places among the top Google results for almost all topics, including political parties and politicians. Wikipedia places among the top Google results for ... Read More A Brief History of Political Wikipedia

• Collaborative Visualizations for Wikipedia Critique and Activism (new publication)

  Date Published: 10 April 2015 - 11:13 am

  Authors: Stefano De Sabbata

  Arzu, Kathryn, Scott, Ralph, and I wrote a short extended abstract for the workshop Wikipedia, a Social Pedia: Research Challenges and Opportunities  at ICWSM 2015, ... Read More Collaborative Visualizations for Wikipedia Critique and Activism (new publication)

• The Ethics of Wikipedia Research

  Date Published: 25 February 2015 - 11:36 am

  Authors: Eve Ahearn

  The election results on this Wikipedia page are wrong, I can tell. As we collect data for the Social Election Prediction Project, I am reviewing ... Read More The Ethics of Wikipedia Research

• New paper: “Barriers to the Localness of Volunteered Geographic Information”

  Date Published: 12 February 2015 - 10:20 am

  Authors: Mark Graham

  Some colleagues (Shilad Sen, Heather Ford, Dave Musicant, Oliver Keyes, Brent Hecht) and I have put together a paper for CHI on Barriers to the ... Read More New paper: “Barriers to the Localness of Volunteered Geographic Information”

• Subjectivity and Data Collection in a “Big Data” Project

  Date Published: 6 February 2015 - 11:33 am

  Authors: Eve Ahearn

  “There remains a mistaken belief that qualitative researchers are in the business of interpreting stories and quantitative researchers are in the business of producing ... Read More Subjectivity and Data Collection in a “Big Data” Project

• Informational Magnetism on Wikipedia: mapping edit focus

  Date Published: 21 January 2015 - 9:49 am

  Authors: Mark Graham

  The previous post demonstrated not only that Sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East and North Africa are net-importers of content on Wikipedia (Sub-Saharan Africa, ... Read More Informational Magnetism on Wikipedia: mapping edit focus

• Informational Magnetism on Wikipedia: geographic networks of edits

  Date Published: 15 January 2015 - 10:12 am

  Authors: Mark Graham

  The previous posts about the geography of contributions to Wikipedia showed the varying types of local engagement that different regions have, the primary reason ... Read More Informational Magnetism on Wikipedia: geographic networks of edits

• Can we count the sum of all human knowledge?

  Date Published: 18 December 2014 - 5:28 am

  Authors: Mark Graham

  I was recently at Wikimedia’s HQ in San Francisco to give a short talk about some of the geographic imbalances in Wikipedia. I was ... Read More Can we count the sum of all human knowledge?

• Digging deeper into the localness of participation in Sub-Saharan African Wikipedia content

  Date Published: 16 December 2014 - 3:42 pm

  Authors: Mark Graham

  The previous two posts about the geography of contributions to Wikipedia showed both the different types of local engagement that different regions have, and ... Read More Digging deeper into the localness of participation in Sub-Saharan African Wikipedia content

• Explaining locally-contributed content in Wikipedia about Sub-Saharan Africa

  Date Published: 12 December 2014 - 12:52 am

  Authors: Mark Graham

  An earlier post showed how different parts of the world have very different levels of engagement with local content in Wikipedia. The data presented ... Read More Explaining locally-contributed content in Wikipedia about Sub-Saharan Africa

• Visualising the locality of participation and voice on Wikipedia

  Date Published: 4 December 2014 - 3:48 am

  Authors: Mark Graham

  On Sunday, I use an extended stopover in San Francisco airport to pop into the Wikimedia Headquarters and chat about uneven geographies of voice ... Read More Visualising the locality of participation and voice on Wikipedia

• The Geographically Uneven Coverage of Wikipedia

  Date Published: 21 October 2014 - 1:05 pm

  Authors: Mark Graham

  This map highlights the fact that a majority of content produced in Wikipedia is about a relatively small part of our planet. This finding ... Read More The Geographically Uneven Coverage of Wikipedia

• What explains the worldwide patterns in user-generated geographical content?

  Date Published: 8 September 2014 - 8:20 am

  Authors: Mark Graham

  How do we explain the significant inequalities in the geography of user-generated information? Mark Graham, PI of a project Mapping and measuring local knowledge ... Read More What explains the worldwide patterns in user-generated geographical content?

• Diary of an internet geography project #4

  Date Published: 14 August 2014 - 10:51 am

  Authors: Heather Ford

  Continuing with our series of blog posts exposing the workings behind a multidisciplinary big data project, we talk this week about the process of moving between ... Read More Diary of an internet geography project #4

• Wikipedia and breaking news: The promise of a global media platform and the threat of the filter bubble

  Date Published: 11 August 2014 - 4:32 pm

  Authors: Heather Ford

  I gave this talk at Wikimania in London yesterday.  In the first years of Wikipedia’s existence, many of us said that, as an example ... Read More Wikipedia and breaking news: The promise of a global media platform and the threat of the filter bubble

• What is stopping greater representation of the MENA region?

  Date Published: 6 August 2014 - 9:35 am

  Authors: Mark Graham

  There are obvious gaps in access to the Internet, particularly the participation gap between those who have their say, and those whose voices are ... Read More What is stopping greater representation of the MENA region?

• Full disclosure: Diary of an Internet geography project #3

  Date Published: 30 July 2014 - 1:11 pm

  Authors: Heather Ford

  In this series of blog posts, we are documenting the process by which a group of computer and social scientists are working together on a project to understand ... Read More Full disclosure: Diary of an Internet geography project #3

• How well represented is the MENA region in Wikipedia?

  Date Published: 22 July 2014 - 9:13 am

  Authors: Mark Graham

  There are obvious gaps in access to the Internet, particularly the participation gap between those who have their say, and those whose voices are ... Read More How well represented is the MENA region in Wikipedia?

• The sum of (some) human knowledge: Wikipedia and representation in the Arab World

  Date Published: 14 July 2014 - 10:00 am

  Authors: Mark Graham

  There are obvious gaps in access to the Internet, particularly the participation gap between those who have their say, and those whose voices are ... Read More The sum of (some) human knowledge: Wikipedia and representation in the Arab World

• Media effect or media replacement?

  Date Published: 22 April 2014 - 12:02 pm

  Authors: Taha Yasseri

  by Jonathan Bright and Taha Yasseri. Online political information seeking, at least in the data we’ve gathered so far, happens in short, concentrated bursts. When we ... Read More Media effect or media replacement?

• Outliers on the electoral information cycle

  Date Published: 11 April 2014 - 12:00 pm

  Authors: Taha Yasseri

  by Jonathan Bright and Taha Yasseri. In the last post we looked at patterns of access to the Wikipedia article on the European Parliament election, 2009 identified an electoral information cycle ... Read More Outliers on the electoral information cycle

• When do people start getting interested in elections? The electoral information cycle

  Date Published: 8 April 2014 - 11:44 am

  Authors: Jonathan Bright

  by Jonathan Bright and Taha Yasseri. When do people start getting interested in elections, and how does this differ in different countries? In this post we ... Read More When do people start getting interested in elections? The electoral information cycle

• Edit wars! Measuring and mapping society’s most controversial topics

  Date Published: 3 December 2013 - 8:21 am

  Authors: Taha Yasseri

  Wikipedia is more than just an encyclopaedia; it is also a window into convergent and divergent social-spatial priorities, interests and preferences: aka Edit Wars. ... Read More Edit wars! Measuring and mapping society’s most controversial topics

• How Wikipedia’s Dr Jekyll became Mr Hyde: Vandalism, sock puppetry and the curious case of Wikipedia’s decline

  Date Published: 21 October 2013 - 6:27 pm

  Authors: Heather Ford

  This is a (very) short paper that I will be presenting at Internet Research in Denver this week. I want to write something longer ... Read More How Wikipedia’s Dr Jekyll became Mr Hyde: Vandalism, sock puppetry and the curious case of Wikipedia’s decline

• Who represents the Arab world online?

  Date Published: 1 October 2013 - 8:09 am

  Authors: Mark Graham

  There are obvious gaps in access to the Internet, particularly the participation gap between those who have their say, and those whose voices are ... Read More Who represents the Arab world online?

• How much Wikipedia could tell us about elections

  Date Published: 14 June 2013 - 1:42 am

  Authors: Taha Yasseri

  IMPORTANT NOTE: this post does not aim at predicting the results of any election. This is just a report on some publicly available data and does ... Read More How much Wikipedia could tell us about elections

• Wikipedia; modern platform, ancient debates on Land and Gods

  Date Published: 27 May 2013 - 1:00 pm

  Authors: Taha Yasseri

  What are the most controversial topics in Wikipedia? What articles have been subject to edit wars more than others? We now have a tool ... Read More Wikipedia; modern platform, ancient debates on Land and Gods

• What can Wikipedia tell us about the Cannes Festival just before the closing

  Date Published: 26 May 2013 - 8:41 am

  Authors: Taha Yasseri

  Among all the interesting events taking place today, one is the Closing Ceremony of 2013 Cannes Film Festival. If you already have seen our ... Read More What can Wikipedia tell us about the Cannes Festival just before the closing

• The coverage of a tragedy

  Date Published: 17 December 2012 - 1:25 pm

  Authors: Taha Yasseri

  “The Newtown School shooting is a school shooting that occurred on December 14, 2012 in Newtown, Connecticut, Connecticut. 24 persons are reported to have ... Read More The coverage of a tragedy

• Language, identity and Wikipedia: Some perspectives from the Cairo “Wikipedia in the Arab World” workshop

  Date Published: 1 November 2012 - 10:37 am

  Authors: Heather Ford

  Mark Graham talks about the stated goal of Wikipedia to become the “sum of all human knowledge” while Ahmed Medat waits to translate into ... Read More Language, identity and Wikipedia: Some perspectives from the Cairo “Wikipedia in the Arab World” workshop

• Two new publications, new research project, looking to hire

  Date Published: 26 February 2012 - 11:51 am

  Authors: Scott A. Hale

  A lot has happened since my last post, and the selected publications page has been updated to reflect this. I am very pleased to ... Read More Two new publications, new research project, looking to hire

• Mapping Wikipedia Article Quality in North America

  Date Published: 13 December 2011 - 3:00 pm

  Authors: Mark Graham

  The maps of Wikipedia previously posted on the blog offer useful insights into the geographies of one of the world’s largest platforms for user-generated ... Read More Mapping Wikipedia Article Quality in North America

• Mapping Wikipedia Globally

  Date Published: 14 November 2011 - 1:30 pm

  Authors: Mark Graham

  Wikipedia is an incredibly impressive coming-together of human labour on a scale that the world rarely sees. Over the last few years, we’ve also ... Read More Mapping Wikipedia Globally

• Wikipedia coverage by langauge

  Date Published: 17 October 2011 - 11:27 am

  Authors: Scott A. Hale

  Update (November 2014): I’ve recently published a related paper examining how many users edit multiple language editions of Wikipedia and how these multilingual users ... Read More Wikipedia coverage by langauge

• What’s up with Montana? Comparing Google and Wikipedia in the US

  Date Published: 4 April 2011 - 3:15 pm

  Authors: Mark Graham

  As mentioned in an earlier post we’re starting to have some fun with cartogram representations of geoweb data. For those who have forgotten, cartograms ... Read More What’s up with Montana? Comparing Google and Wikipedia in the US

• Heatmap of Wikipedia articles: the concentrated geographies of history

  Date Published: 22 March 2011 - 12:40 pm

  Authors: Mark Graham

  Gareth Lloyd has put together a brilliant visualisation of all geotagged Wikipedia articles. Even more fascinating is this video, showing the data mapped out ... Read More Heatmap of Wikipedia articles: the concentrated geographies of history

• Wikipedia Demographics

  Date Published: 3 February 2011 - 4:20 pm

  Authors: Mark Graham

  We’ve written a fair amount about the geographic and linguistic clusters of Wikipedia authors but were reminded today (via New York Times “Room for ... Read More Wikipedia Demographics

• Homophily and the Internet

  Date Published: 5 August 2010 - 11:49 am

  Authors: Scott A. Hale

  I recently had the opportunity to meet Ethan Zuckerman while he was on a visit to Oxford for TED where he gave a talk ... Read More Homophily and the Internet

• Wikipedia and Internet Use

  Date Published: 5 July 2010 - 5:00 pm

  Authors: Mark Graham

  The following map displays the total number of Wikipedia articles normalised by the number of internet users at the country level. The countries with ... Read More Wikipedia and Internet Use

• The Spy in Your TV

  Date Published: 12 March 2017

  Source: BBC World Service

  Dr Taha Yasseri of the Oxford Internet Institute discusses his research into how software robots, or bots, that are designed to make articles on Wikipedia better often end up having online fights lasting years over changes in content.

• Tech Tent: Snooping TVs and battling bots

  Date Published: 10 March 2017

  Source: BBC News

  Dr Taha Yasseri and his colleagues at the Oxford Internet Institute have been looking at by studying the behaviour of bots that maintain pages on Wikipedia. It turns out that sometimes they disagree over edits.

• Artificial intelligence runs wild while humans dither

  Date Published: 6 March 2017

  Source: Financial Times

  Research from the Oxford Internet Institute and the Alan Turing Institute has found algorithms are battling with each other, undoing rival edits on Wikipedia. They were surprised by the findings, concluding that we need to pay far more attention to them.

• Editing bots are more like humans

  Date Published: 28 February 2017

  Source: The Hindu

  Software robots designed to improve articles on Wikipedia sometimes have online ‘fights’ over content that can continue for years, say scientists who warn that artificial intelligence systems may behave more like humans than expected.

• Study reveals bot-on-bot editing wars raging on Wikipedia’s pages

  Date Published: 24 February 2017

  Source: The Guardian

  A new study by Milena Tsvetkova, Ruth García-Gavilanes, Luciano Floridi and Taha Yasseri finds that Wikipedia is a battleground where silent wars between bots have raged for years.

• When bots go bad: how Wikipedia’s helpers ended up locked in conflict

  Date Published: 24 February 2017

  Source: The Guardian

  According to new research from the Oxford Internet Institute, the software robots, or “bots”, which carry out basic housekeeping tasks on Wikipedia articles have “fights” over their pages. The conflicts can go on for years.

• People built AI bots to improve Wikipedia. Then they started squabbling in petty edit wars, sigh

  Date Published: 23 February 2017

  Source: The Register

  An investigation into Wikipedia bots has confirmed the automated editing software can be just as pedantic and petty as humans are – often engaging in online spats that can continue for years.

• Study: Even ‘benevolent bots’ fight, sometimes for years

  Date Published: 23 February 2017

  Source: UPI

  An analysis of bot behavior over the course of a decades shows even "benevolent" bots bicker. In fact, researchers found evidence of bot-versus-bot fights lasting several years.

• The Wikipedia bots that are engaged in spats that never end

  Date Published: 21 September 2016

  Source: New Scientist

  Wikipedia editors sometimes use bots to help them keep on top of changes that users have made to the online encyclopedia. But sometimes two editors will task different bots with making incompatible edits.

• Bots are waging passive-aggressive war on Wikipedia

  Date Published: 21 September 2016

  Source: TechCrunch

  Bots are a useful tool on Wikipedia: they identify and undo vandalism, add links and perform other tedious tasks. But even these automated helpers come into conflict, reverting and re-reverting each other on the same topic, sometimes for years.

• Indefatigable WikiBots keep Wikipedia battles going long after humans give up and go home

  Date Published: 21 September 2016

  Source: The Register

  A group of researchers from Oxford University and the Alan Turing Institute in London say once Wikipedia bots get into a disagreement, they spend years reverting each others' edits.

• The Growing Problem of Bots That Fight Online

  Date Published: 20 September 2016

  Source: MIT Technology Review

  The way software agents interact on the Web is poorly understood. Now evidence shows that they fight each other for years.

• The Lopsided Geography of Wikipedia

  Date Published: 21 June 2016

  Source: The Atlantic

  At the University of Oxford, Mark Graham and a team of researchers have spent several years investigating just how “global” Wikipedia's collective intelligence really is.

• Four billion people remain remain without Internet globally

  Date Published: 2 October 2015

  Source: Hurriyet Daily News

  The Turkish news site reports on research by Mark Graham and colleagues on internet accessibility worldwide.

• Le taux d’accès à internet reste faible en Afrique

  Date Published: 28 September 2015

  Source: SciDevNet

  An article reporting on the work of Mark Graham and team on internet access in Africa (French language)

• Why It Matters That U.S. and European Editors Dominate Wikipedia

  Date Published: 19 September 2015

  Source: takepart

  Report of the work of Mark Graham and team on biases inherent in Wikipedia edits

• Studi: Barat Monopoli Wawasan Tentang Dunia Lewat Wikipedia

  Date Published: 16 September 2015

  Source: Suara.com

  Coverage of research by Mark Graham and team on Wikipedia edits.

• Wikipedia nhìn thế giới qua lăng kính của các nước phương Tây

  Date Published: 16 September 2015

  Source: Nhan Dan

  Coverage of research by Mark Graham and team on Wikipedia edits

• Internet. Cartographie : l’archipel de la déconnexion

  Date Published: 16 September 2015

  Source: Courrier Sciences

  Report of the work of Mark Graham and team on biases inherent in Wikipedia edits.

• Wikipedia’s view of the world is written by the west

  Date Published: 15 September 2015

  Source: The Guardian

  OII research has shown that most Wikipedia articles about places are edited by just five rich countries. Mark Graham, who led the research, says 'local voices rarely represent and define their own country'.

• Wikipedia’s world view is skewed by rich, western voices

  Date Published: 15 September 2015

  Source: Wired.uk

  Research by Mark Graham and team has shown that most Wikipedia articles about places are edited by just five rich countries. Editors from low-income countries were more likely to edit articles about high-income countries than their own.

• Wikipedia : un regard qui vient surtout de l’ouest

  Date Published: 15 September 2015

  Source: Le Devoir

  Coverage of research by Mark Graham and team on regional differences in Wikipedia editing.

• Western Wikipedia editors writing history of poorer nations, study finds

  Date Published: 15 September 2015

  Source: siliconrepublic

  Coverage of research by Mark Graham and team on regional differences in Wikipedia editing.

• Wikipedia world view ‘shaped by editors in the West’

  Date Published: 15 September 2015

  Source: Phys.org

  Report of the work of Mark Graham and team on biases inherent in Wikipedia edits.

• Wkipedia’s world is written by the West

  Date Published: 15 September 2015

  Source: Al Arabiya

  Coverage of work by Mark Graham and colleagues about inherent biases in Wikipedia. (in Arabic)

• There are More Wikipedia Editors from the Netherlands than All of Africa

  Date Published: 8 September 2015

  Source: VICE Motherboard

  Research by the OII into participation in Wikipedia reveals that 45 percent of edits about places originate in five rich countries which challenges t he idea of that Wikipedia offers a platform for local voices.

• The Digital Language Divide

  Date Published: 29 May 2015

  Source: The Guardian

  A Digital Guardian article which explores in depth the effects of language on internet use draws heavily on work done by OII researchers.

• The hidden biases of Geodata

  Date Published: 28 April 2015

  Source: The Guardian

  In a guest post, Mark Graham examines the sources of geographic information on the internet and highlights some of the biases leading to uneven geographies.

• Wikipedia sockpuppetry: linking accounts to real people is pure speculation

  Date Published: 23 April 2015

  Source: The Conversation

  Taha Yasseri explains the background issues relating to accusations that Grant Shapps, Conservative party chairman edited Wikipedia pages relating to himself and to party rivals.

• 25 maps and charts on language

  Date Published: 17 November 2014

  Source: Vox

  Vox features the map by Mark Graham et al showing the language in which the plurality of Wikipedia articles are written about particular countries. It shows that English is the major language even for articles about non Anglophone countries.

• 2.5% of the world is responsible for more than 50% of Wikipedia articles

  Date Published: 11 November 2014

  Source: The Washington Post

  The information geographies project shows the majority of Wikipedia content is about 2.5% of the world's land area whilst the whole continent of Africa only has around 2.6% geotagged articles.

• Why you probably won’t understand the web of the future

  Date Published: 6 November 2014

  Source: Quartz

  Although less than 5% percent of the world uses English as a first language, it dominates the web. Organisations like Google, Facebook and Mozilla are taking steps to address language issues.. Mark Graham's map and comments feature.

• The world wide SPREAD: Map reveals the extent of internet use around the globe – and the countries that are still not online

  Date Published: 22 September 2014

  Source: Daily Mail

  The map of global use of websites created by Mark Graham and Stefano De Sabbata is reported in the Daily Mail. The data visualisation shows each country sized according to its internet-enable population.

• Wikipedia’s geography problem: There are more articles about Antarctica than Egypt

  Date Published: 14 September 2014

  Source: Vox

  The distortions of global online representation is demonstrated with Mark Graham's map of the under-representation of Africa, Asia and South America in Wikipedia coverage worldwide.

• Why global contributions to Wikipedia are so unequal

  Date Published: 8 September 2014

  Source: The Conversation

  Mark Graham authors an article explaining why the unequal global representation in Wikipedia matters and why it impedes Wikiepedia's aim to be the 'sum of all human knowledge'.

• Geotagging reveals Wikipedia is not quite so equal after all

  Date Published: 18 August 2014

  Source: New Statesman

  Rather than being an equaliser, Wikipedia may be reproducing an established world view. Mark Graham writes about his work on inequalities in Wikipedia. For example, he says, the Middle East is massively underrepresented.

• What was the last book you read? Wikipedia wants to know

  Date Published: 13 August 2014

  Source: The National Opinion

  The interactive map of Wikipedia created by Mark Graham and colleagues is used to demonstrate inequalities in representation on Wikipedia.

• How Big Data Will Change Our Lives and Our Understanding of Them

  Date Published: 16 May 2014

  Source: dataeconomy

  Taha Yasseri takes the optimistic view that Big Data techniques used in computation social sciences will create 'self-aware' societies in the future which will be better places to belong to.

• Four Thought

  Date Published: 14 May 2014

  Source: BBC R4

  Mark Graham explores the causes, manifestations and effects of global informational inequalities in a first-person talk as part of the Four Thought series on BBC Radio 4.

• There Are More Wikipedia Articles About This One Small Part of the World Than the Rest of It Combined

  Date Published: 25 February 2014

  Source: The Atlantic

  Analysis by Mark Graham and colleagues of over 3 million Wikipedia articles in the 44 most popular languages reveals that the majority of references are about an area occupying only 2.5 percent of the world's land mass.

• Wikipedia’s Secret Multilingual Workforce

  Date Published: 13 December 2013

  Source: MIT Technology Review

  Wikipedia's various language editions often carry entirely different content. Scott Hale has identified a small band of multilingual editors who are working to change that.

• Wikipedia Entries On Professors Mean Nothing, Study Finds

  Date Published: 8 November 2013

  Source: Huffington Post

  A study co-authored by Taha Yasseri reveals that Wikipedia is no more likely to cite prominent researchers than other, less influential sources.

• Edit wars

  Date Published: 5 August 2013

  Source: The Economist

  The Economist Graphic Detail column highlights the work of Taha Yasseri and colleagues on Wikipedia’s so-called ‘edit wars’, the most contested subjects which Wikipedia’s editors edit or ‘revert’ the most.

• Wiki wars: The 10 most controversial Wikipedia pages

  Date Published: 24 July 2013

  Source: CNN

  An article on the most controversial topics in Wikipedia as revealed in research by Taha Yasseri and colleagues George Bush and anarchism are the most hotly contested in the English language edition.

• Blockbuster-Prognose mit Wikipedia

  Date Published: 13 June 2013

  Source: Deutschlandfunk

  Forecasting Blockbuster with Wikipedia.  Taha Yasseri,the OII’s Big Data Research Officer interviewed on national German Radio about his work and how Wikipedia can be used to predict which films will become blockbusters.

• Wikipedia’s most controversial pages include Jesus and George W. Bush

  Date Published: 5 June 2013

  Source: Toronto Star

  Work by Taha Yasseri and colleagues on 10 different language Wikipedia sites showed that Jesus was the one controversial subject, as measured by editor amendments that came across the board. Politics and religion still trigger the biggest arguments

• Wikipedians most likely to war over ‘Israel,’ ‘God’

  Date Published: 3 June 2013

  Source: The Times of Israel

  Reporting Taha Yasseri’s work the Times of Israel notes that in Hebrew Wikipedia  the greatest divisions are mainly about religious sects and armed conflicts but across the languages ‘Israel ‘ and ‘Hitler’ are the most contested subjects.

• Chile, el tema más controvertido de Wikipedia en espaňol

  Date Published: 3 June 2013

  Source: BBC Mundo

  The most controversial topics in Spanish Wikipedia, identified by Taha Yasseri and Mark Graham are highlighted on the BBC’s Spanish language web site.

• Wikipedia ‘Edit Wars’: The most hotly contested topics

  Date Published: 31 May 2013

  Source: Live Science

  Taha Yasseri says Wikipedia suffers from traditional features of human societies. People argue most on Wikipedia about religion and politics with variations on non-English language sites. Romanians for example argue most about musicians and art.

• The Most Controversial Article in all of English Wikipedia is George Bush’s

  Date Published: 31 May 2013

  Source: The Huffington Post

  The Huffington Post says that the study of controversial topics in Wikipedia by Taha Yasseri and Mark Graham contains some ‘incredible graphics’ several of which are displayed.

• The Controversial Topics of Wikipedia

  Date Published: 30 May 2013

  Source: Wired Science Blog

  Wired magazine article sets out some of the findings of Taha Yasseri, mark Graham and colleagues’ work on contested subjects in Wikipedia.  The table of the most controversial articles in each language edition is featured.

• Wikipedia is not free

  Date Published: 21 May 2013

  Source: Caijing.com.cn

  The challenge for Wikipedia of expanding beyond the English speaking world is published in the independent Beijing-based Chinese language magazine. Mark Graham’s research is referenced and DPhil student Heath Ford is quoted.

• OPINIÓN: El acceso generalizado a internet, ¿es una meta alcanzable?

  Date Published: 17 May 2013

  Source: CNN Mexico

  Is widespread access to the Internet and achievable goal? Mark Graham’s work is referenced in the Spanish language site, noting the US, Canada and Europe account for 84 per cent of the articles in Wikipedia.

• Gütesiegel für Wikipedia

  Date Published: 13 May 2013

  Source: Technology Review

  The German Technology site looks at how academics use Wikipedia in Germany and beyond. It refers to Mark Graham’s work, quoted in ‘The Atlantic’, suggesting that Wikipedia reflects the background of its editors and contributors.

• Why Wikipedia’s Millionth Russian Page Is Worth Celebrating

  Date Published: 11 May 2013

  Source: Simulacrum

  An English language version of an article originally in Russian links to Mark Graham’s work on the origins of Wikipedia articles and notes that diasporas have an important role to play.

• Catalan Wikipedia Reaches 400,000 Article Milestone

  Date Published: 19 April 2013

  Source: Global Voices

  The Catalan version of Wikipedia plays an important role in raising global awareness of the region, people and its language.  Mark Graham says that nowhere in the world has such high visibility for a language is relatively little spoken.

• Free for all? Lifting the lid on a Wikipedia crisis

  Date Published: 17 April 2013

  Source: New Scientist

  In an in-depth analysis of the challenges facing Wikipedia in expanding participation beyond the English speaking world, Mark Graham’s research on Wikipedia is referenced and DPhil student Heather Ford is quoted.

• Who Writes the Wikipedia Entries About Where You Live?

  Date Published: 26 March 2013

  Source: The Atlantic

  Mark Graham tackles the issue of where our information comes from, and how this should influence the way we interpret it?

• Big data and the death of the theorist

  Date Published: 25 January 2013

  Source: Wired

  Mark Graham is skeptical about on the death of the scientific theory at the hands of big data analysis: "when talking about 'big data' and the humanities, there will always be things that are left unsaid, things that haven't been measured or codified".

• Twitter Map Predicts 2012 Presidential Election: Will It Be Right?

  Date Published: 6 November 2012

  Source: Huffington Post Technology (US)

  A map of the origins of tweets referencing either Obama or Romney in the month leading up to the US presidential elections predicted the outcome. 

• Election 2012: Twitter map predicts presidential race results

  Date Published: 6 November 2012

  Source: Syracuse.com

  A map of the origins of tweets referencing either Obama or Romney in the month leading up to the US presidential elections predicted the outcome. 

• Wikipedia world: an interactive guide to every language. Infographic map

  Date Published: 4 April 2012

  Source: The Guardian

  In 'Show and Tell' on the Guardian Data Store, Simon Rogers, winner of the OII award for best internet journalist in 2011, highlights the Mapping Wikipedia project which shows millions of articles worldwide in a variety of languages.

• Without Wikipedia, where can you get your facts?

  Date Published: 18 January 2012

  Source: BBC News

  On the day that Wikipedia blacks out its English language site, the BBC News magazine explores alternative sources of information. Mark Graham says that Wikipedia is open access, free and that mistakes are quickly corrected.

• Wikipedia Language Maps Created By Oxford Internet Institute’s Mark Graham

  Date Published: 13 November 2011

  Source: Huffington Post

  "Mark Graham led a team of researchers who broke down Wikipedia's geotagged articles by language and examined the global scope of the encyclopedia. They plotted these data onto maps of the world to show the spread of languages within the encyclopedia."

• This Map Shows the World of Wikipedia Broken Down by Languages

  Date Published: 11 November 2011

  Source: Gizmodo US

  "Ever wondered if anyone outside your redneck little town writes about it on Wikipedia? Or if anyone has ever written about Australia in Arabic? Guess no longer, because someone's worked it out for you."

• The world of Wikipedia’s languages mapped

  Date Published: 11 November 2011

  Source: Guardian Datablog

  What happens if you map every geotagged Wikipedia article - and then analyse it for language use? A team of Oxford University researchers has found out.

• Wikipedia wants more contributions from academics

  Date Published: 29 March 2011

  Source: The Guardian

  Mark Graham is quoted in an article examining why academics seem reluctant to donate their expertise to Wikipedia. He says: 'Unfortunately, there is no reward system set up in academia for us to contribute our knowledge in Wikipedia'.

• The playcast: Decoding Wikipedia and following cricket on Twitter

  Date Published: 21 January 2010

  Source: Mint.com

  Interview with Mark Graham about the geography of Wikipedia, looking at those places in the world that are well-represented in in wikipedia, and those which aren't.

• Map Reveals Which Countries Wikipedia Discusses Most — And Least

  Date Published: 12 December 2009

  Source: Huffington Post

  Mark Graham's Wikipedia map shows areas best covered by Wikipedia: 'Remarkably there are more Wikipedia articles written about Antarctica than all but one of the fifty-three countries in Africa.'

• Wikipedia’s known unknowns

  Date Published: 1 December 2009

  Source: The Guardian

  Marks Graham's analysis of Wikipedia entries reveals the world's knowledge deserts - which may provide a second wave of activity for the online encyclopedia.