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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

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

The Wikimedia Foundation has recently observed that newly joining editors on Wikipedia are increasingly failing to integrate into the Wikipedia editors' community, i.e. the community is becoming increasingly harder to penetrate. To sustain…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2014-05-30 Kalpit V Desai , Roopesh Ranjan

Large language models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable success across various domains, but effectively incorporating complex and potentially noisy user timeline data into LLMs remains a challenge. Current approaches often involve translating…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Lin Ning , Luyang Liu , Jiaxing Wu , Neo Wu , Devora Berlowitz , Sushant Prakash , Bradley Green , Shawn O'Banion , Jun Xie

In this paper, we present a comprehensive analysis and monitoring framework for the impact of Large Language Models (LLMs) on Wikipedia, examining the evolution of Wikipedia through existing data and using simulations to explore potential…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Siming Huang , Yuliang Xu , Mingmeng Geng , Yao Wan , Dongping Chen

We present an unsupervised explainable word embedding technique, called EVE, which is built upon the structure of Wikipedia. The proposed model defines the dimensions of a semantic vector representing a word using human-readable labels,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-02-23 M. Atif Qureshi , Derek Greene

In this paper, we present the first results of our ongoing early-stage research on a realtime disaster detection and monitoring tool. Based on Wikipedia, it is language-agnostic and leverages user-generated multimedia content shared on…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-01-27 Thomas Steiner , Ruben Verborgh

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

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 is a popular web-based encyclopedia edited freely and collaboratively by its users. In this paper we present an analysis of Wikipedias in several languages as complex networks. The hyperlinks pointing from one Wikipedia article to…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-11-11 V. Zlatic , M. Bozicevic , H. Stefancic , M. Domazet

This paper presents a novel design of the system aimed at supporting the Wikipedia community in addressing vandalism on the platform. To achieve this, we collected a massive dataset of 47 languages, and applied advanced filtering and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Mykola Trokhymovych , Muniza Aslam , Ai-Jou Chou , Ricardo Baeza-Yates , Diego Saez-Trumper

OpenStreetMap is a unique source of openly available worldwide map data, increasingly adopted in real-world applications. Vandalism detection in OpenStreetMap is critical and remarkably challenging due to the large scale of the dataset, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Nicolas Tempelmeier , Elena Demidova

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

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

OpenStreetMap (OSM), a collaborative, crowdsourced Web map, is a unique source of openly available worldwide map data, increasingly adopted in Web applications. Vandalism detection is a critical task to support trust and maintain OSM…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-26 Nicolas Tempelmeier , Elena Demidova

A bag-of-words based probabilistic classifier is trained using regularized logistic regression to detect vandalism in the English Wikipedia. Isotonic regression is used to calibrate the class membership probabilities. Learning curve,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2010-01-06 Amit Belani

A simple dynamical model of collective edit activity of Wikipedia articles and their content evolution is introduced. Based on the recent empirical findings, each editor in the model is characterized by an ability to make content edit,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-04-25 Takashi Shimada , Fumiko Ogushi , Janos Torok , Janos Kertesz , Kimmo Kaski

Multilingualism is common offline, but we have a more limited understanding of the ways multilingualism is displayed online and the roles that multilinguals play in the spread of content between speakers of different languages. We take a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-06-14 Suin Kim , Sungjoon Park , Scott A. Hale , Sooyoung Kim , Jeongmin Byun , Alice Oh

Large language models (LLMs) are trained on broad corpora and then used in communities with specialized norms. Is providing LLMs with community rules enough for models to follow these norms? We evaluate LLMs' capacity to detect (Task 1) and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Joshua Ashkinaze , Ruijia Guan , Laura Kurek , Eytan Adar , Ceren Budak , Eric Gilbert

Wikipedia can easily be justified as a behemoth, considering the sheer volume of content that is added or removed every minute to its several projects. This creates an immense scope, in the field of natural language processing towards…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-06-12 Soumya Sarkar , Bhanu Prakash Reddy , Sandipan Sikdar , Animesh Mukherjee