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Wikipedia and many User-Generated Content (UGC) communities are known for producing reliable, quality content, but also for being vulnerable to false or misleading information. Previous work has shown that many hoaxes on Wikipedia go…
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In this paper we analyze how user generated content (UGC) is created, challenging the well known {\it wisdom of crowds} concept. Although it is known that user activity in most settings follow a power law, that is, few people do a lot,…
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