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Given Wikipedia's role as a trusted source of high-quality, reliable content, concerns are growing about the proliferation of low-quality machine-generated text (MGT) produced by large language models (LLMs) on its platform. Reliable…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Gerrit Quaremba , Elizabeth Black , Denny Vrandečić , Elena Simperl

A model for the probabilistic function followed in Wikipedia edition is presented and compared with simulations and real data. It is argued that the probability to edit is proportional to the editor's number of previous editions…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-10-27 Y. Gandica , F. Sampaio dos Aidos , J. Carvalho

Wikipedia is a critical source of information for millions of users across the Web. It serves as a key resource for large language models, search engines, question-answering systems, and other Web-based applications. In Wikipedia, content…

Emotions play an important role in interpersonal interactions and social conflict, yet their function in the development of controversy and disagreement in online conversations has not been explored. To address this gap, we study…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-02 Kai Chen , Zihao He , Rong-Ching Chang , Jonathan May , Kristina Lerman

Wikipedia is a popular web-based encyclopedia edited freely and collaboratively by its users. In this paper we present an analysis of Wikipedias in several languages as complex networks. The hyperlinks pointing from one Wikipedia article to…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-11-11 V. Zlatic , M. Bozicevic , H. Stefancic , M. Domazet

We introduce CHEW, a novel dataset of changing events in Wikipedia expressed in naturally occurring text. We use CHEW for probing LLMs for their timeline understanding of Wikipedia entities and events in generative and classification…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-28 Hsuvas Borkakoty , Luis Espinosa-Anke

This article analyzes one month of edits to Wikipedia in order to examine the role of users editing multiple language editions (referred to as multilingual users). Such multilingual users may serve an important function in diffusing…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2014-05-13 Scott A. Hale

Gender imbalance in Wikipedia content is a known challenge which the editor community is actively addressing. The aim of this paper is to provide the Wikipedia community with instruments to estimate the magnitude of the problem for…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Hrishikesh Patel , Tianwa Chen , Ivano Bongiovanni , Gianluca Demartini

This paper aims to review the fiercely discussed question of whether the ranking of Wikipedia articles in search engines is justified by the quality of the articles. After an overview of current research on information quality in Wikipedia,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2011-09-06 Dirk Lewandowski , Ulrike Spree

Wikipedia has been turned into an immensely popular crowd-sourced encyclopedia for information dissemination on numerous versatile topics in the form of subscription free content. It allows anyone to contribute so that the articles remain…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-11-03 Paramita Das , Bhanu Prakash Reddy Guda , Sasi Bhusan Seelaboyina , Soumya Sarkar , Animesh Mukherjee

Multilingualism is common offline, but we have a more limited understanding of the ways multilingualism is displayed online and the roles that multilinguals play in the spread of content between speakers of different languages. We take a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-06-14 Suin Kim , Sungjoon Park , Scott A. Hale , Sooyoung Kim , Jeongmin Byun , Alice Oh

A number of human activities exhibit a bursty pattern, namely periods of very high activity that are followed by rest periods. Records of this process generate time series of events whose inter-event times follow a probability distribution…

Analyzing writing styles of non-native speakers is a challenging task. In this paper, we analyze the comments written in the discussion pages of the English Wikipedia. Using learning algorithms, we are able to detect native speakers'…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2012-11-05 Rami Al-Rfou'

Wikipedia is a community-created encyclopedia that contains information about notable people from different countries, epochs and disciplines and aims to document the world's knowledge from a neutral point of view. However, the narrow…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2015-03-25 Claudia Wagner , David Garcia , Mohsen Jadidi , Markus Strohmaier

Wikipedia articles aim to be definitive sources of encyclopedic content. Yet, only 0.6% of Wikipedia articles have high quality according to its quality scale due to insufficient number of Wikipedia editors and enormous number of articles.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-08-06 Sumit Asthana , Sabrina Tobar Thommel , Aaron Lee Halfaker , Nikola Banovic

As one of the richest sources of encyclopedic information on the Web, Wikipedia generates an enormous amount of traffic. In this paper, we study large-scale article access data of the English Wikipedia in order to compare articles with…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-05-11 Dimitar Dimitrov , Florian Lemmerich , Fabian Flöck , Markus Strohmaier

Wikipedia, a paradigmatic example of online knowledge space is organized in a collaborative, bottom-up way with voluntary contributions, yet it maintains a level of reliability comparable to that of traditional encyclopedias. The lack of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-05-24 Fumiko Ogushi , János Kertész , Kimmo Kaski , Takashi Shimada

We investigate the novel task of online dispute detection and propose a sentiment analysis solution to the problem: we aim to identify the sequence of sentence-level sentiments expressed during a discussion and to use them as features in a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-06-21 Lu Wang , Claire Cardie

Peer production projects such as Wikipedia or open-source software development allow volunteers to collectively create knowledge based products. The inclusive nature of such projects poses difficult challenges for ensuring trustworthiness…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2014-02-05 S. Anand , Ofer Arazy , Narayan Mandayam , Oded Nov

News article revision histories provide clues to narrative and factual evolution in news articles. To facilitate analysis of this evolution, we present the first publicly available dataset of news revision histories, NewsEdits. Our dataset…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-16 Alexander Spangher , Xiang Ren , Jonathan May , Nanyun Peng