Temporal Analysis of Activity Patterns of Editors in Collaborative Mapping Project of OpenStreetMap
Taha Yasseri, Giovanni Quattrone, and Afra Mashhadi

TL;DR
This paper analyzes the temporal activity patterns of OpenStreetMap editors in two European capitals over seven years, comparing these patterns with those observed in Wikipedia to understand differences in geo-wiki collaboration behaviors.
Contribution
It provides a novel temporal analysis of OpenStreetMap editors, categorizing patterns and comparing them with Wikipedia, highlighting unique aspects of geo-wiki contributions.
Findings
Identified distinct temporal activity patterns of OSM editors.
Documented historical trends over seven years.
Compared OSM editing patterns with Wikipedia, revealing key differences.
Abstract
In the recent years Wikis have become an attractive platform for social studies of the human behaviour. Containing millions records of edits across the globe, collaborative systems such as Wikipedia have allowed researchers to gain a better understanding of editors participation and their activity patterns. However, contributions made to Geo-wikis_wiki-based collaborative mapping projects_ differ from systems such as Wikipedia in a fundamental way due to spatial dimension of the content that limits the contributors to a set of those who posses local knowledge about a specific area and therefore cross-platform studies and comparisons are required to build a comprehensive image of online open collaboration phenomena. In this work, we study the temporal behavioural pattern of OpenStreetMap editors, a successful example of geo-wiki, for two European capital cities. We categorise different…
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