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Wikipedia is the world's largest online encyclopedia, but maintaining article quality through collaboration is challenging. Wikipedia designed a quality scale, but with such a manual assessment process, many articles remain unassessed. We…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-04 Pedro Miguel Moás , Carla Teixeira Lopes

Wikipedia serves as a globally accessible knowledge source with content in over 300 languages. Despite covering the same topics, the different versions of Wikipedia are written and updated independently. This leads to factual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Silvia Cappa , Lingxiao Kong , Pille-Riin Peet , Fanfu Wei , Yuchen Zhou , Jan-Christoph Kalo

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

Wikipedia entity pages are a valuable source of information for direct consumption and for knowledge-base construction, update and maintenance. Facts in these entity pages are typically supported by references. Recent studies show that as…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-03-31 Besnik Fetahu , Katja Markert , Avishek Anand

Wikipedia is the largest existing knowledge repository that is growing on a genuine crowdsourcing support. While the English Wikipedia is the most extensive and the most researched one with over five million articles, comparatively little…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2017-10-20 Kristina Ban , Matjaz Perc , Zoran Levnajic

Nowadays, editors tend to separate different subtopics of a long Wiki-pedia article into multiple sub-articles. This separation seeks to improve human readability. However, it also has a deleterious effect on many Wikipedia-based tasks that…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-06-24 Muhao Chen , Changping Meng , Gang Huang , Carlo Zaniolo

International Auxiliary Languages (IALs) are constructed languages designed to facilitate communication among speakers of different native languages while fostering equality, efficiency, and cross-cultural understanding. This study focuses…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-08-29 Marta Alet , Diego Saez-Trumper

Fast-developing fields such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) often outpace the efforts of encyclopedic sources such as Wikipedia, which either do not completely cover recently-introduced topics or lack such content entirely. As a result,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-23 Irene Li , Alexander Fabbri , Rina Kawamura , Yixin Liu , Xiangru Tang , Jaesung Tae , Chang Shen , Sally Ma , Tomoe Mizutani , Dragomir Radev

Since its inception six years ago, the online encyclopedia Wikipedia has accumulated 6.40 million articles and 250 million edits, contributed in a predominantly undirected and haphazard fashion by 5.77 million unvetted volunteers. Despite…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Dennis M. Wilkinson , Bernardo A. Huberman

The interlanguage links in Wikipedia connect pages on the same subject written in different languages. In theory, each connected component should be a clique and cover one topic. However, incoherent edits and obvious mistakes result in…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-04-06 Łukasz Bolikowski

Several hundred Wikipedia articles are deleted every day because they lack sufficient significance to be included in the encyclopedia. We collect a dataset of deleted articles and analyze them to determine whether or not the deletions were…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2013-05-24 Bluma S. Gelley

To foster the development of new models for collaborative AI-assisted report generation, we introduce MegaWika, consisting of 13 million Wikipedia articles in 50 diverse languages, along with their 71 million referenced source materials. We…

We show that generating English Wikipedia articles can be approached as a multi- document summarization of source documents. We use extractive summarization to coarsely identify salient information and a neural abstractive model to generate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-02-01 Peter J. Liu , Mohammad Saleh , Etienne Pot , Ben Goodrich , Ryan Sepassi , Lukasz Kaiser , Noam Shazeer

English Wikipedia has long been an important data source for much research and natural language machine learning modeling. The growth of non-English language editions of Wikipedia, greater computational resources, and calls for equity in…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-04-07 Isaac Johnson , Emily Lescak

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

While a plethora of hypertext links exist on the Web, only a small amount of them are regularly clicked. Starting from this observation, we set out to study large-scale click data from Wikipedia in order to understand what makes a link…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-02-21 Dimitar Dimitrov , Philipp Singer , Florian Lemmerich , Markus Strohmaier

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

This paper proposes approaches to automatically create a large number of new bilingual dictionaries for low-resource languages, especially resource-poor and endangered languages, from a single input bilingual dictionary. Our algorithms…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-15 Khang Nhut Lam , Feras Al Tarouti , Jugal Kalita

By linking to external websites, Wikipedia can act as a gateway to the Web. To date, however, little is known about the amount of traffic generated by Wikipedia's external links. We fill this gap in a detailed analysis of usage logs…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Tiziano Piccardi , Miriam Redi , Giovanni Colavizza , Robert West

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…