Abstract:
The work presents a study of the global public information service Wikipedia, which is
intended to reflect social and cultural events of both global and national scale. All threats
and conflicts of social, informational and legal nature as an important factor in public
projects are determined. Two historical events of the Orange Revolution and the
Revolution of Dignity have been studied in the context of the information presented in
Wikipedia. The engagement and number of edits of these pages are evaluated. A study
using Spearman’s rank correlation coefficient was conducted to determine the
relationship between the amount of engagement and number of page edits. The rank
correlation between qualitative characteristics is determined. The information about the
event was researched in the available statistical period and the event was considered in
the context of comparing visits to the event pages presented in Wikipedia in three
languages. The analysis was performed by two parameters, namely the number of visits
and the corresponding date of the year. There were studied the regularities obtained as a
result of the analysis of statistical data presented in Wikipedia on the visits to the
analyzed event in three languages and the impact of other events on it.
