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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…

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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

Collaborations such as Wikipedia are a key part of the value of the modern Internet. At the same time there is concern that these collaborations are threatened by high levels of member turnover. In this paper we borrow ideas from topic…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-07-30 Xiangju Qin , Derek Greene , Pádraig Cunningham

Wikipedia -- like most peer production communities -- suffers from a basic problem: the amount of work that needs to be done (articles to be created and improved) exceeds the available resources (editor effort). Recommender systems have…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-08-18 Mo Houtti , Isaac Johnson , Joel Cepeda , Soumya Khandelwal , Aviral Bhatnagar , Loren Terveen

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

The Wikipedia category graph serves as the taxonomic backbone for large-scale knowledge graphs like YAGO or Probase, and has been used extensively for tasks like entity disambiguation or semantic similarity estimation. Wikipedia's…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-07-01 Nicolas Heist , Heiko Paulheim

A major challenge for many analyses of Wikipedia dynamics -- e.g., imbalances in content quality, geographic differences in what content is popular, what types of articles attract more editor discussion -- is grouping the very diverse range…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Isaac Johnson , Martin Gerlach , Diego Sáez-Trumper

Despite the importance and pervasiveness of Wikipedia as one of the largest platforms for open knowledge, surprisingly little is known about how people navigate its content when seeking information. To bridge this gap, we present the first…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-01-19 Tiziano Piccardi , Martin Gerlach , Akhil Arora , Robert West

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…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-01-05 Taha Yasseri , Róbert Sumi , János Kertész

Wikipedia, in its role as the world's largest encyclopedia, serves a broad range of information needs. Although previous studies have noted that Wikipedia users' information needs vary throughout the day, there is to date no large-scale,…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Tiziano Piccardi , Martin Gerlach , Robert West

The traditional entity extraction problem lies in the ability of extracting named entities from plain text using natural language processing techniques and intensive training from large document collections. Examples of named entities…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2007-11-21 Anne-Marie Vercoustre , James A. Thom , Jovan Pehcevski

Online platforms, particularly Wikipedia, have become critical infrastructures for providing diverse linguistic and cultural contexts. This human-curated knowledge now forms the foundation for modern AI. However, we have not yet fully…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Akira Matsui , Fujio Toriumi , Mitsuo Yoshida , Taichi Murayama , Shiori Hironaka

Wikipedia is a huge global repository of human knowledge, that can be leveraged to investigate interwinements between cultures. With this aim, we apply methods of Markov chains and Google matrix, for the analysis of the hyperlink networks…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-03-06 Young-Ho Eom , Pablo Aragón , David Laniado , Andreas Kaltenbrunner , Sebastiano Vigna , Dima L. Shepelyansky

The World Wide Web is a complex interconnected digital ecosystem, where information and attention flow between platforms and communities throughout the globe. These interactions co-construct how we understand the world, reflecting and…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Patrick Gildersleve , Anna Beers , Viviane Ito , Agustin Orozco , Francesca Tripodi

Wikidata is steadily becoming more central to Wikipedia, not just in maintaining interlanguage links, but in automated population of content within the articles themselves. It is not well understood, however, how widespread this…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Isaac Johnson

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

With this work, we present a publicly available dataset of the history of all the references (more than 55 million) ever used in the English Wikipedia until June 2019. We have applied a new method for identifying and monitoring references…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-10-08 Olga Zagovora , Roberto Ulloa , Katrin Weller , Fabian Flöck

Wikipedia is a prime example of today's value production in a collaborative environment. Using this example, we model the emergence, persistence and resolution of severe conflicts during collaboration by coupling opinion formation with…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-01-05 Gerardo Iñiguez , János Török , Taha Yasseri , Kimmo Kaski , János Kertész

The instances of templates in Wikipedia form an interesting data set of structured information. Here I focus on the cite journal template that is primarily used for citation to articles in scientific journals. These citations can be…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2008-06-12 Finn Aarup Nielsen

With the rise of Wikipedia as a first-stop source for scientific knowledge, it is important to compare its representation of that knowledge to that of the academic literature. Here we identify the 250 most heavily used journals in each of…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2017-01-17 Misha Teplitskiy , Grace Lu , Eamon Duede