Ribeiro, M. H., Gligorić, K., Peyrard, M., Lemmerich, F., Strohmaier, M., & West, R. (2020). Sudden Attention Shifts on Wikipedia During the COVID-19 Crisis. https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.08505 

University of Michigan - Ann Arbor

Researchers studied Wikipedia access logs, mobility reports, and information on intervention dates by performing difference in difference regression models on longitudinal Wikipedia access logs to determine whether COVID-19 affected how people seek information. It was concluded that after minimized public mobility, Wikipedia saw dramatic increases in pageviews, and articles written about different disciplines saw varying patterns of increased pageviews. 

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