Wikipedia and the 2008 US elections/Barack Obama

Barack Obama
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

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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

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  1. was the article started as a stub? if so, how long did it take to lose the stub tag?
  2. did wikipedia have an article on the subject before the election? if so, compare the article before and after
  3. were daughter articles created? if so, when? were all of the daughter articles kept?
  4. what was the relationship between talk page edits and article edits?
  5. were there edit wars? if so, what were they about, and did they coincide with campaign events?
  6. was the article protected or placed under probation? if so, why and for how long?
  7. did the campaigns themselves edit the articles?
  8. was the article itself ever in the news?

Timeline

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Development needed for a timeline with edits by day, week, or month, sorted by:

  1. anon, user, and sysop
  2. content edits, minor edits (copyedits and so on), reverted edits, vandal edits, reverted vandal edits
  3. mark major campaign events on the timeline to see if there is any correlation between number of edits and news events
 
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