Abstract
New health-related concepts, terms, and topics emerge, and the meanings of existing terms and topics keep changing. This study investigated and explored the evolutions of the women’s health topic on Wikipedia. The creation time, page views data, page edits data, and text of historical versions of 207 women-health-related entries from 2010 to 2017 on Wikipedia were collected. Coding, subject analysis, descriptive and inferential statistical analysis, and Self-Organizing Map and n-gram approaches were employed to explore the characteristics and evolutions of the entries for the women’s health topic. The results show that the number of the women-health-related entries kept increasing from 2010 to 2017, and nearly half of them were related to the supports and protection of women’s health. The total number of page views of the investigated items increased from 2011 to 2013, but it decreased from 2013 to 2017, while the total number of page edits stayed stable from 2010 to 2017. Growing subjects were found during the investigated period, such as abuse and violence, and family planning and reproduction. However, the entries related to the economy and politics were diminishing. There was no association between the internal characteristic evolution and the external popularity evolution of the women’s health topic.
Highlights
With the development of computer technology and Internet technology, the volume of health information keeps increasing on the Internet
This study aims at discovering the themes, subjects, and entries related to Wikipedia and the relations among them and exploring how the women’s health topic evolved from women’s health on Wikipedia and the relations among them and exploring how the women’s health
For each theme and the entire topic, its Numbers of Yearly Page Edits (NYPEs) trend differed a lot from its NYPV trend from 2010 to 2017
Summary
With the development of computer technology and Internet technology, the volume of health information keeps increasing on the Internet. According to Tu’s report, the proportion of people among all the consumers who sought health information online increased from 15.9% to 32.6% from 2001 to. Stated that they sought health information online during the past year [2]. Dawson reported that 81% of European consumers and 63% of USA consumers trust the health information on social media applications [4]. Al-Madaney, and Almousawi found that 85% of patients and their companions sought health information via social media [5]. These statistics reveals that social media is recognized as an important channel for seeking health information in recent years
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