Wikipedia and the 2008 US elections/Barack Obama
| Barack Obama | |
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| Subject type: | Candidate, now president |
| Creation date: | 18 March, 2004 |
| First notability: | tbd |
| Article edits: | tbd |
| Talk page edits: | tbd |
| Days protected (sysop only): | tbd |
| Days protected (autoconfirmed): | tbd |
Article history
[edit | edit source]The Barack Obama article began on 18 March, 2004, created by an unregistered editor. The article was edited a total of 335 times during 2004[1].
In 2005, the article was edited 461 times[2].
In 2006, the article was edited times.
In 2007, there were edits.
In 2008, there were edits.
In January, 2009, there were edits.
Basic questions
[edit | edit source]- was the article started as a stub? if so, how long did it take to lose the stub tag?
- did wikipedia have an article on the subject before the election? if so, compare the article before and after
- were daughter articles created? if so, when? were all of the daughter articles kept?
- what was the relationship between talk page edits and article edits?
- were there edit wars? if so, what were they about, and did they coincide with campaign events?
- was the article protected or placed under probation? if so, why and for how long?
- did the campaigns themselves edit the articles?
- was the article itself ever in the news?
Timeline
[edit | edit source]Development needed for a timeline with edits by day, week, or month, sorted by:
- anon, user, and sysop
- content edits, minor edits (copyedits and so on), reverted edits, vandal edits, reverted vandal edits
- mark major campaign events on the timeline to see if there is any correlation between number of edits and news events
