Datasets:
Tasks:
Time Series Forecasting
Languages:
English
Size:
< 1K
Tags:
temporal-point-process
event-sequences
wikipedia
edit-history
collaborative-editing
marked-temporal-point-process
License:
| language: | |
| - en | |
| license: mit | |
| task_categories: | |
| - time-series-forecasting | |
| tags: | |
| - temporal-point-process | |
| - event-sequences | |
| - wikipedia | |
| - edit-history | |
| - collaborative-editing | |
| - marked-temporal-point-process | |
| size_categories: | |
| - n<1K | |
| # Wikipedia Edit Events | |
| Curated Wikipedia article edit history sequences from [Featured](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_articles) and [Good](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Good_articles) articles, designed for temporal point process (TPP) and marked temporal point process (MTPP) modeling. Each sequence tracks an article's editorial activity over time, where the prediction target is the **edit action type**. | |
| ## Dataset Description | |
| - **Source:** [Wikipedia MediaWiki API](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php) | |
| - **Article source:** Wikipedia Featured + Good articles | |
| - **Grouping:** Per-article, chunked into consecutive sequences of 60–80 events | |
| - **Sequences:** 276 | |
| - **Sequence length:** 63–80 events per sequence (mean: 79.9) | |
| - **Event types:** 6 edit action types | |
| - **Time unit:** hours | |
| - **Duration range:** 2.9–4,319 hours (mean: 1,061 hours ≈ 44 days, capped at 6 months) | |
| ## Schema | |
| Each record is a dictionary with 8 fields: | |
| | Field | Type | Description | | |
| |---|---|---| | |
| | `seq_idx` | int | Sequence index | | |
| | `seq_len` | int | Number of events in the sequence | | |
| | `description` | str | Natural language description of the article's edit timeline | | |
| | `metadata` | str (JSON) | `article_title`, `article_pageid`, `chunk_index`, `num_editors`, `date_range_start`, `date_range_end`, `time_unit` | | |
| | `time_since_start` | list[float] | Time since the first event (in hours) | | |
| | `time_since_last_event` | list[float] | Time since the previous event (in hours) | | |
| | `type_event` | list[str] | Edit action type label (see below) | | |
| | `type_text` | list[str] | Natural language description of each edit | | |
| ## Event Types (6 edit action types) | |
| Edits are classified by priority order from revision metadata (byte delta, tags, edit summary): | |
| | Type | Description | Classification Rule | | |
| |---|---|---| | |
| | `revert` | Undoing a previous edit | Tags contain mw-rollback, mw-undo, or mw-manual-revert | | |
| | `reference` | Adding or modifying citations | Edit summary matches ref/cite/source/bibliography patterns | | |
| | `content_addition` | Substantial new content | Byte delta > +200 | | |
| | `content_removal` | Substantial content removed | Byte delta < -200 | | |
| | `copy_edit` | Small wording/formatting changes | \|delta\| <= 200, not flagged as minor | | |
| | `minor_edit` | Trivial corrections | Minor flag set | | |
| ## Curation Filters | |
| Sequences are aggressively filtered to ensure diverse, non-trivial edit type distributions: | |
| | Filter | Value | Description | | |
| |---|---|---| | |
| | `max-articles` | 1,000 | Featured + Good articles processed | | |
| | `min-seq-size` | 60 | Min events per sequence chunk | | |
| | `max-seq-size` | 80 | Max events per sequence chunk | | |
| | `min-types` | 4 | At least 4 distinct edit types per sequence | | |
| | `max-duration-hours` | 4,380 | Drop sequences spanning more than 6 months | | |
| | `max-dominant-ratio` | 0.40 | Drop sequences where any single type exceeds 40% | | |
| | `max-repeat-ratio` | 0.40 | Drop sequences where consecutive repeat ratio exceeds 40% | | |
| Additional processing: | |
| - Bot edits excluded (tag "bot" or username ending in "bot") | |
| - Byte deltas computed from consecutive revision sizes | |
| - Sequences chunked chronologically per article | |
| ## Event Text | |
| Each event's `type_text` is a coherent natural sentence providing rich context without explicitly stating the edit type classification. The article title is omitted (available at sequence level in `description` and `metadata`). | |
| > Registered editor My love is love made a moderate addition (+620 bytes, <1% of article) to section "Titling and artwork" | |
| **Sentence structure:** `{Editor identity} {size action} [to section "..."]. [Summary: "..."]. [Signals]. [Tool]. [Minor flag].` | |
| Components (included only when present): | |
| 1. **Editor identity** (lead) — `"Registered editor Centrx"` or `"An anonymous editor"` | |
| 2. **Size action** (verb) — `"made a substantial addition (+1,253 bytes, 61% of article)"` | |
| 3. **Section target** — `to section "Background and formation"` (extracted from edit comment) | |
| 4. **Edit summary** — `Summary: "start background"` (cleaned of wiki markup) | |
| 5. **Semantic signals** — auto-detected patterns (e.g., "The summary mentions fixing language or typography") | |
| 6. **Tool/interface** — `"Made using the visual editor"` (from revision tags) | |
| 7. **Minor flag** — `"Flagged as minor"` | |
| The model must learn to predict the edit action type from these contextual signals. | |
| ## Example | |
| ```json | |
| { | |
| "seq_idx": 2, | |
| "seq_len": 80, | |
| "description": "Wikipedia edit timeline for the article '4 (Beyoncé album)' spanning Dec 2011 to Jan 2012. This sequence tracks editorial activity including content changes, reverts, and maintenance edits.", | |
| "metadata": "{\"article_title\": \"4 (Beyoncé album)\", \"article_pageid\": 31176601, \"chunk_index\": 24, \"num_editors\": 22, \"date_range_start\": \"2011-12-13T16:21:57+00:00\", \"date_range_end\": \"2012-01-07T21:12:43+00:00\", \"time_unit\": \"hours\"}", | |
| "time_since_start": [0.0, 0.22, 2.56, ...], | |
| "time_since_last_event": [0.0, 0.22, 2.35, ...], | |
| "type_event": ["content_addition", "minor_edit", "copy_edit", ...], | |
| "type_text": [ | |
| "Registered editor My love is love made a moderate addition (+620 bytes, <1% of article) to section \"Titling and artwork\"", | |
| "Registered editor My love is love made a null edit (no size change) to section \"Music and themes\". Flagged as minor", | |
| "Registered editor Dumb + dumb = 4 made a small removal (-142 bytes)", | |
| ... | |
| ] | |
| } | |
| ``` | |
| ## Intended Use | |
| - Training and evaluating temporal point process models | |
| - Studying collaborative editing patterns on Wikipedia | |
| - Benchmarking next-event prediction and event forecasting | |
| - Modeling marked temporal point processes with rich text marks | |
| ## Citation | |
| If you use this dataset, please cite: | |
| ```bibtex | |
| @dataset{wikipedia_edit_events_2025, | |
| title={Wikipedia Edit Events}, | |
| author={XiaoBB}, | |
| year={2025}, | |
| url={https://huggingface.co/datasets/DescribeEvents/wikipedia_edit_events}, | |
| note={Curated from Wikipedia MediaWiki API, Featured and Good articles} | |
| } | |
| ``` | |