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Circadian Patterns of Wikipedia Editorial Activity: A Demographic Analysis 1 1 ´ ´ 1,2 Taha Yasseri *, Robert Sumi , Janos Kertesz 1 Department of Theoretical Physics, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Budapest, Hungary, 2 Department of Biomedical Engineering and Computational Science, Aalto University, Espoo, Finland Abstract Wikipedia (WP) as a collaborative, dynamical system of humans is an appropriate subject of social studies. Each single action of the members of this society, i.e., editors, is well recorded and accessible. Using the cumulative data of 34 Wikipedias in different languages, we try to characterize and find the universalities and differences in temporal activity patterns of editors. Based on this data, we estimate the geographical distribution of editors for each WP in the globe. Furthermore we also clarify the differences among different groups of WPs, which originate in the variance of cultural and social features of the communities of editors. ´ Citation: Yasseri T, Sumi R, Kertesz J (2012) Circadian Patterns of Wikipedia Editorial Activity: A Demographic Analysis. PLoS ONE 7(1): e30091. doi:10.1371/ journal.pone.0030091 Editor: Attila Szolnoki, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary Received September 8, 2011; Accepted December 9, 2011; Published January 17, 2012 Copyright: 2012 Yasseri et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Funding: The project ICTeCollective acknowledges the financial support of the Future and Emerging Technologies (FET) programme within the Seventh Framework Pro