Types of Wikipedia editors. The first column lists the types of editors, the number of reference-editing actors of each type, and their actions that we encounter in our data set. The second column elaborates on each
| Type of editors . | Description . |
|---|---|
| Registered editors | These correspond to individual users who have registered their profile on Wikipedia and edited at least one reference. |
| Actors: 1,910,667 | |
| Actions: 121,681,174 | |
| Bots | Bots were identified from bot lists of Wikimedia plus an additional list of bots’ names that we created. These sources were combined into a final list consisting of 10,262 unique account names (see Appendix J in the Supplementary material for the sources), out of which 1,172 were associated with at least one action in Wikipedia references. |
| Actors: 1,172 | |
| Actions: 19,386,851 | |
| Nonregistered editors | Edits coming from nonregistered IP addresses cannot be attributed to specific anonymous editors. Several persons can share the same IP address (e.g., university addresses or libraries), and one editor can connect via several IPs. |
| Actors: N/A | |
| Actions: 23,459,838 |
| Type of editors . | Description . |
|---|---|
| Registered editors | These correspond to individual users who have registered their profile on Wikipedia and edited at least one reference. |
| Actors: 1,910,667 | |
| Actions: 121,681,174 | |
| Bots | Bots were identified from bot lists of Wikimedia plus an additional list of bots’ names that we created. These sources were combined into a final list consisting of 10,262 unique account names (see Appendix J in the Supplementary material for the sources), out of which 1,172 were associated with at least one action in Wikipedia references. |
| Actors: 1,172 | |
| Actions: 19,386,851 | |
| Nonregistered editors | Edits coming from nonregistered IP addresses cannot be attributed to specific anonymous editors. Several persons can share the same IP address (e.g., university addresses or libraries), and one editor can connect via several IPs. |
| Actors: N/A | |
| Actions: 23,459,838 |