The use of information and communication technologies as a means of analyzing public interest in historical events in wikipedia regarding documenting the social and cultural sphere

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.