Death and Wikipedia

Editors of the online encyclopedia Wikipedia tend to update Wikipedia articles with information about deaths quickly after people die.[3][4] Web developer and Wikipedia editor Hay Kranen coined the term "deaditor" to refer to these editors.[5] Articles about people often have large spikes in views just after they die. For example, the article about designer Kate Spade averaged 2,117 views in 48-hour periods before her death. In the 48 hours after her death, it got 3,417,416, an increase of 161,427%.[6][7][8]

Sydwhunte was the first to update the Elizabeth II Wikipedia article following her death.[1][2]

The media have remarked on the site's quick updates after the deaths of people such as Michael Jackson[9] and Elizabeth II.[5][10][11]

In 2009, English-language Wikipedia adopted new quality control measures to verify information on the biographies of living people, including claims of death.[12]

When a biographee dies of a disease, the progress of that disease may also be described.[13]

References
  1. Rauwerda, Annie (September 9, 2022). "Who the hell updated Queen Elizabeth II's Wikipedia page so quickly?". Input. Archived from the original on 20 October 2022. Retrieved 20 October 2022.
  2. Mannix, Liam (September 13, 2022). "Evidence suggests Wikipedia is accurate and reliable. When are we going to start taking it seriously?". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 20 October 2022.
  3. Harrison, Stephen (16 August 2018). "Meet the People Who Quickly Update Wikipedia Pages When a Celebrity Like Aretha Franklin Dies". Slate Magazine.
  4. Thomas, Rhys (5 October 2022). "Inside the world of Wikipedia's deaditors". The Face.
  5. McNamee, Kai (2022-09-15). "Fastest 'was' in the West: Inside Wikipedia's race to cover the queen's death". NPR. Archived from the original on 2023-01-15. Retrieved 2023-01-22.
  6. Samora, Russell (August 2018). "Life After Death on Wikipedia". The Pudding. Retrieved 2023-01-14.
  7. Goldenberg, Russell (August 2018). "Life After Death on Wikipedia". The Pudding.
  8. Rosen, Rebecca J. (6 February 2013). "If You Want Your Wikipedia Page to Get a Ton of Traffic, Die While Performing at the Super Bowl Half-Time Show". The Atlantic.
  9. Steiner, Thomas; van Hooland, Seth; Summers, Ed (13 May 2013). "MJ no more: Using concurrent wikipedia edit spikes with social network plausibility checks for breaking news detection". Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on World Wide Web. pp. 791–794. doi:10.1145/2487788.2488049. ISBN 9781450320382. S2CID 15540545.
  10. Lukpat, Alyssa (18 September 2022). "When Queen Elizabeth II Died, Wikipedia's 'Deaditors' Were Ready". Wall Street Journal.
  11. Parsons, Jeff (9 September 2022). "How Wikipedia responded when news of the Queen's death broke". Metro.
  12. Cohen, Noam (24 August 2009). "Wikipedia to Limit Changes to Articles on People". The New York Times.
  13. Mahroum, Naim; Bragazzi, Nicola Luigi; Sharif, Kassem; Gianfredi, Vincenza; Nucci, Daniele; Rosselli, Roberto; Brigo, Francesco; Adawi, Mohammad; Amital, Howard; Watad, Abdulla (June 2018). "Leveraging Google Trends, Twitter, and Wikipedia to Investigate the Impact of a Celebrityʼs Death From Rheumatoid Arthritis". JCR: Journal of Clinical Rheumatology. 24 (4): 188–192. doi:10.1097/RHU.0000000000000692. PMID 29461342. S2CID 3442166.


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