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Table 2 Average metrics of Wikipedia articles on researchers from the selected fields

From: The distorted mirror of Wikipedia: a quantitative analysis of Wikipedia coverage of academics

Field

Length (page)

Editors/excluding bots

Edits/excluding bots

In-degree

Daily views (2012)

Languages

Biol

2.2 (±0.2)

27/22 (±3/±3)

54/47 (±6/±6)

15 (±2)

11 (±2)

2 (±0.4)

CoSi

2.0 (±0.1)

34/28 (±4/±4)

59/51 (±6/±6)

30 (±6)

19 (±4)

2 (±0.5)

Phys

2.7 (±0.3)

37/30 (±5/±4)

87/77 (±20/±19)

24 (±5)

17 (±3)

3 (±0.7)

Psyc

2.5 (±0.2)

34/29 (±6/±6)

76/69 (±14/±14)

16 (±5)

23 (±6)

1 (±0.3)

  1. The length of a page is taken as 2,638 characters (a standard A4 Word document, Arial 12, 1.5 spaced). Languages column includes the number of language editions of Wikipedia covering the same scholar (excluding English). The numbers in parentheses are the standard errors of the average.