好奇的节律：维基百科消费的时间规律性
Curious Rhythms: Temporal Regularities of Wikipedia Consumption
AI总结：
本文基于数十亿条维基百科页面请求数据，系统揭示条目消费的昼夜节律及其与主题、国家和设备等因素的关联，深化了对人类全天信息寻求行为的理解。
摘要：
维基百科作为世界上最大的百科全书，服务于广泛的信息需求。尽管已有研究注意到维基百科用户的信息需求在一天中会发生变化，但迄今为止尚无大规模、定量研究来揭示其背后的动态规律。本文填补了这一空白，通过对从英文维基百科服务器日志中挖掘的数十亿条经时区校正的页面请求进行大规模分析，研究日常消费模式中的时间规律性，目标是探究情境和时间如何与所消费信息的类型相关联。首先，我们表明，即使在去除昼夜交替的全局模式之后，单个条目的消费习惯仍保持强烈的昼夜规律性。然后，我们刻画了消费模式的典型形状，发现晚间/夜间偏好的条目与工作时段偏好的条目之间存在特别明显的区分。最后，我们考察了维基百科条目访问节律的主题和情境关联因素，发现条目主题、读者所在国家和访问设备（移动端与桌面端）都是日常注意力模式的重要预测因子。这些发现通过聚焦维基百科这一最大的开放知识与学习平台之一，为人类如何在网络上寻求信息提供了新的认识，强调了维基百科作为丰富知识库的作用，它满足了贯穿全天分布的信息需求，并对理解全球范围内的信息寻求行为以及设计合适的信息系统具有重要意义。
英文摘要：
Wikipedia, in its role as the world's largest encyclopedia, serves a broad range of information needs. Although previous studies have noted that Wikipedia users' information needs vary throughout the day, there is to date no large-scale, quantitative study of the underlying dynamics. The present paper fills this gap by investigating temporal regularities in daily consumption patterns in a large-scale analysis of billions of timezone-corrected page requests mined from English Wikipedia's server logs, with the goal of investigating how context and time relate to the kind of information consumed. First, we show that even after removing the global pattern of day-night alternation, the consumption habits of individual articles maintain strong diurnal regularities. Then, we characterize the prototypical shapes of consumption patterns, finding a particularly strong distinction between articles preferred during the evening/night and articles preferred during working hours. Finally, we investigate topical and contextual correlates of Wikipedia articles' access rhythms, finding that article topic, reader country, and access device (mobile vs. desktop) are all important predictors of daily attention patterns. These findings shed new light on how humans seek information on the Web by focusing on Wikipedia as one of the largest open platforms for knowledge and learning, emphasizing Wikipedia's role as a rich knowledge base that fulfills information needs spread throughout the day, with implications for understanding information seeking across the globe and for designing appropriate information systems.
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