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One of the most impressive human endeavors of the past two decades is the collection and categorization of human knowledge in the free and accessible format that is Wikipedia. In this work we ask what makes a term worthy of entering this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-18 Yonatan Bilu , Shai Gretz , Edo Cohen , Noam Slonim

The different Wikipedia language editions vary dramatically in how comprehensive they are. As a result, most language editions contain only a small fraction of the sum of information that exists across all Wikipedias. In this paper, we…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-04-13 Ellery Wulczyn , Robert West , Leila Zia , Jure Leskovec

Wikipedia's contents are based on reliable and published sources. To this date, relatively little is known about what sources Wikipedia relies on, in part because extracting citations and identifying cited sources is challenging. To close…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Harshdeep Singh , Robert West , Giovanni Colavizza

Research into influence campaigns on Twitter has mostly relied on identifying malicious activities from tweets obtained via public APIs. These APIs provide access to public tweets that have not been deleted. However, bad actors can delete…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Christopher Torres-Lugo , Manita Pote , Alexander Nwala , Filippo Menczer

Wikipedia is a goldmine of information; not just for its many readers, but also for the growing community of researchers who recognize it as a resource of exceptional scale and utility. It represents a vast investment of manual effort and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2009-05-10 Olena Medelyan , David Milne , Catherine Legg , Ian H. Witten

References are an essential part of Wikipedia. Each statement in Wikipedia should be referenced. In this paper, we explore the creation and collection of references for new Wikipedia articles from an editors' perspective. We map out the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-05 Lucie-Aimée Kaffee , Hady Elsahar

Wikipedia can be edited by anyone and thus contains various quality sentences. Therefore, Wikipedia includes some poor-quality edits, which are often marked up by other editors. While editors' reviews enhance the credibility of Wikipedia,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-02 Kenichiro Ando , Satoshi Sekine , Mamoru Komachi

The moderation of content on online platforms is usually non-transparent. On Wikipedia, however, this discussion is carried out publicly and the editors are encouraged to use the content moderation policies as explanations for making…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Lucie-Aimée Kaffee , Arnav Arora , Isabelle Augenstein

Wikipedia serves as a good example of how editors collaborate to form and maintain an article. The relationship between editors, derived from their sequence of editing activity, results in a directed network structure called the revision…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-04-18 James R. Ashford , Liam D. Turner , Roger M. Whitaker , Alun Preece , Diane Felmlee , Don Towsley

Wikipedia is the largest web repository of free knowledge. Volunteer editors devote time and effort to creating and expanding articles in more than 300 language editions. As content quality varies from article to article, editors also spend…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Paramita Das , Isaac Johnson , Diego Saez-Trumper , Pablo Aragón

The quality and quantity of articles in each Wikipedia language varies greatly. Translating from another Wikipedia is a natural way to add more content, but the translation process is not properly supported in the software used by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-06-08 Niklas Laxström , Pau Giner , Santhosh Thottingal

This paper presents a new way to increase interconnectivity in small Wikipedias (fewer than a 100,000 articles), by automatically linking articles based on interlanguage links. Many small Wikipedias have many articles with very few links,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-01-10 Michael Lotkowski

Wikipedia is a useful knowledge source that benefits many applications in language processing and knowledge representation. An important feature of Wikipedia is that of categories. Wikipedia pages are assigned different categories according…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-04-26 Yanqing Chen , Steven Skiena

An edit summary is a succinct comment written by a Wikipedia editor explaining the nature of, and reasons for, an edit to a Wikipedia page. Edit summaries are crucial for maintaining the encyclopedia: they are the first thing seen by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Marija Šakota , Isaac Johnson , Guosheng Feng , Robert West

Wikipedia serves as a key infrastructure for public access to scientific knowledge, but it faces challenges in maintaining the credibility of cited sources--especially when scientific papers are retracted. This paper investigates how…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Haohan Shi , Yulin Yu , Daniel M. Romero , Emőke-Ágnes Horvát

Wikipedia is a critical resource for modern NLP, serving as a rich repository of up-to-date and citation-backed information on a wide variety of subjects. The reliability of Wikipedia -- its groundedness in its cited sources -- is vital to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-10 William Walden , Kathryn Ricci , Miriam Wanner , Zhengping Jiang , Chandler May , Rongkun Zhou , Benjamin Van Durme

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

Hyperlinks are an essential feature of the World Wide Web. They are especially important for online encyclopedias such as Wikipedia: an article can often only be understood in the context of related articles, and hyperlinks make it easy to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Robert West , Ashwin Paranjape , Jure Leskovec

Wikipedia is the largest source of free encyclopedic knowledge and one of the most visited sites on the Web. To increase reader understanding of the article, Wikipedia editors add images within the text of the article's body. However,…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-12-06 Daniele Rama , Tiziano Piccardi , Miriam Redi , Rossano Schifanella

Wikipedia is a rich and invaluable source of information. Its central place on the Web makes it a particularly interesting object of study for scientists. Researchers from different domains used various complex datasets related to Wikipedia…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-03-21 Nicolas Aspert , Volodymyr Miz , Benjamin Ricaud , Pierre Vandergheynst