Figure 1

Illustration of the interest model.

Notes: The left panel shows the time-ordered edit sequence of four Wikipedia articles, with edits coming from different countries represented as coloured pins. Note that pins represent country edits, and therefore they can be repeated. The resulting empirical network, calculated by multiplying raw co-edits counts, is at the bottom. In the right panel, we illustrate the null model with the same four articles, and the resulting network at the bottom. In the null model, the average editing activity of the countries is preserved, but the order of the edits is reshuffled within and across articles. As a result of the filtering, some links are removed in the interest model.