Edit Wars in a Contested Digital City: Mapping Wikipedia’s Uneven Augmentations of Berlin

Figures & data

Figure 1 Locations of geotagged articles in Berlin.

Figure 2 Geotagged article density in German edition (N = 3,741). Note: Local population data from Amt für Statistik Berlin Brandenburg (2018).

Figure 3 Geotagged article density in English edition (N = 974). Note: Local population data from Amt für Statistik Berlin Brandenburg (2018).

Figure 4 Locations of edits to geotagged articles in Berlin.

Figure 5 Locations of edits to contested geotagged articles in Berlin.

Table 1 Contested geotagged articles in Berlin, Germany

Edition	Article	Edit war score	No. edits
EN	Berlin	54,782	4,047
EN	Nazi Germany	32,768	3,750
EN	Battle of Berlin	23,454	1,120
DE	Berlin	7,440	1,275
DE	Ministerium für Staatssicherheit (Stasi)	6,450	762
EN	Schutzstaffel (SS)	5,040	1,715
EN	Berliner FC Dynamo	3,280	172
EN	Berlin Wall	2,880	3,279
FR	Angela Merkel	2,800	478
DE	Gedenkstätte Berlin-Hohenschönhausen	2,688	135
EN	Voßstraße	35	936
DE	Hertha BSC	1,355	390
EN	German Empire	1,257	360
EN	Gestapo	1,480	252

EN = English edition of Wikipedia, DE = German edition of Wikipedia, FR = French edition of Wikipedia.

Amt für Statistik Berlin Brandenburg. 2018. Statistischer Bericht: Ein wohnerinnen und Einwohner im Land Berlin [Statistical report: Residents in the country Berlin]. Accessed March 31, 2019. https://www.statistik-berlin-brandenburg.de/publikationen/stat_berichte/2019/SB_A01-05-00_2018h02_BE.pdf.

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