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Uneven Coverage of Natural Disasters in Wikipedia: The Case of Floods
Valerio Lorini
Javier Rando
Diego Saez-Trumper
Carlos Castillo
Amanda Hughes
Fiona McNeill
Christopher W. Zobel
The usage of non-authoritative data for disaster management provides timely information that might not be available through other means. Wikipedia, a collaboratively-produced encyclopedia, includes in-depth information about many natural disasters, and its editors are particularly good at adding information in real-time as a crisis unfolds. In this study, we focus on the most comprehensive version of Wikipedia, the English one. Wikipedia offers good coverage of disasters, particularly those having a large number of fatalities. However, by performing automatic content analysis at a global scale, we also show how the coverage of floods in Wikipedia is skewed towards rich, English-speaking countries, in particular the US and Canada. We also note how coverage of floods in countries with the lowest income is substantially lower than the coverage of floods in middle-income countries. These results have implications for analysts and systems using Wikipedia as an information source about disasters.
urn:ISBN:2411-3449
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url:http://idl.iscram.org/show.php?record=2264
citekey:ValerioLorini_etal2020
citation:Valerio Lorini, Javier Rando, Diego Saez-Trumper, & Carlos Castillo. (2020). Uneven Coverage of Natural Disasters in Wikipedia: The Case of Floods. In Amanda Hughes, Fiona McNeill, & Christopher W. Zobel (Eds.), ISCRAM 2020 Conference Proceedings – 17th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (pp. 688-703). Blacksburg, VA (USA): Virginia Tech.
2020
ConferencePaper
text
Social Media, News Values, Wikipedia, Natural Disasters, Floods.
file:http://idl.iscram.org/files/valeriolorini/2020/2264_ValerioLorini_etal2020.pdf
Virginia Tech
English
978-1-949373-27-63
ISCRAM 2020 Conference Proceedings – 17th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management
2020
688
703
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