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Wikipedia, the largest open-collaborative online encyclopedia, is a corpus of documents bound together by internal hyperlinks. These links form the building blocks of a large network whose structure contains important information on the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-05-26 Robin Brochier , Frédéric Béchet

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, as a social phenomenon of collaborative knowledge creating, has been studied extensively from various points of views. The category system of Wikipedia, introduced in 2004, has attracted relatively little attention. In this…

Physics and Society · Physics 2012-03-06 Krzysztof Suchecki , Alkim Almila Akdag Salah , Cheng Gao , Andrea Scharnhorst

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

Identifying which Wikipedia articles are related to science fiction, fantasy, or their hybrids is challenging because genre boundaries are porous and frequently overlap. Wikipedia nonetheless offers machine-readable structure beyond text,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Włodzimierz Lewoniewski , Milena Stróżyna , Izabela Czumałowska , Elżbieta Lewańska

Sections are the building blocks of Wikipedia articles. They enhance readability and can be used as a structured entry point for creating and expanding articles. Structuring a new or already existing Wikipedia article with sections is a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-05-07 Tiziano Piccardi , Michele Catasta , Leila Zia , Robert West

Among the manifold takes on world literature, it is our goal to contribute to the discussion from a digital point of view by analyzing the representation of world literature in Wikipedia with its millions of articles in hundreds of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-01-05 Christoph Hube , Frank Fischer , Robert Jäschke , Gerhard Lauer , Mads Rosendahl Thomsen

In this work, we propose an automatic evaluation and comparison of the browsing behavior of Wikipedia readers that can be applied to any language editions of Wikipedia. As an example, we focus on English, French, and Russian languages…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Volodymyr Miz , Joëlle Hanna , Nicolas Aspert , Benjamin Ricaud , Pierre Vandergheynst

Knowledge bases are very good sources for knowledge extraction, the ability to create knowledge from structured and unstructured sources and use it to improve automatic processes as query expansion. However, extracting knowledge from…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2015-05-07 Joan Guisado-Gámez , Arnau Prat-Pérez

A review of the empirical literature on access to scholarly information. This review focuses on surveys of authors, article download and citation analysis.

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2016-09-08 Philip M. Davis

This aim of this article is to explore the potential use of Wikipedia page view data for predicting electoral results. Responding to previous critiques of work using socially generated data to predict elections, which have argued that these…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-01-05 Taha Yasseri , Jonathan Bright

The World Wide Web (WWW) has fundamentally changed the ways billions of people are able to access information. Thus, understanding how people seek information online is an important issue of study. Wikipedia is a hugely important part of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-01-05 Patrick Gildersleve , Taha Yasseri

The present study aims to establish a valid method by which to apply the theory of co-citations to Wikipedia article references and, subsequently, to map these relationships between scientific papers. This theory, originally applied to…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2019-07-31 Daniel Torres-Salinas , Esteban Romero-Frías , Wenceslao Arroyo-Machado

We present a new concept - Wikiometrics - the derivation of metrics and indicators from Wikipedia. Wikipedia provides an accurate representation of the real world due to its size, structure, editing policy and popularity. We demonstrate an…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2016-01-11 Gilad Katz , Lior Rokach

It is arguable whether history is made by great men and women or vice versa, but undoubtably social connections shape history. Analysing Wikipedia, a global collective memory place, we aim to understand how social links are recorded across…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2012-07-05 Pablo Aragón , Andreas Kaltenbrunner , David Laniado , Yana Volkovich

Wikipedia is a well-known platform for disseminating knowledge, and scientific sources, such as journal articles, play a critical role in supporting its mission. The open access movement aims to make scientific knowledge openly available,…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Puyu Yang , Ahad Shoaib , Robert West , Giovanni Colavizza

Wikipedia is the largest online encyclopedia, used by algorithms and web users as a central hub of reliable information on the web. The quality and reliability of Wikipedia content is maintained by a community of volunteer editors. Machine…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-06-02 KayYen Wong , Miriam Redi , Diego Saez-Trumper

We use the directed networks between articles of 24 Wikipedia language editions for producing the Wikipedia Ranking of World Universities (WRWU) using PageRank, 2DRank and CheiRank algorithms. This approach allows to incorporate various…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-03-16 José Lages , Antoine Patt , Dima L. Shepelyansky

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…

Literature reviews have long played a fundamental role in synthesizing the current state of a research field. However, in recent years, certain fields have evolved at such a rapid rate that literature reviews quickly lose their relevance as…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Michel Wijkstra , Timo Lek , Tobias Kuhn , Kasper Welbers , Mickey Steijaert