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Wikis can be considered as public domain knowledge sharing system. They provide opportunity for those who may not have the privilege to publish their thoughts through the traditional methods. They are one of the fastest growing systems of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Charles Robert , Ranmi Adigun

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

The dataset focuses on Wikipedia users and contains information about demographic and socioeconomic characteristics of the respondents and their activity on Wikipedia. The data was collected using a questionnaire available online between…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Caterina Cruciani , Léo Joubert , Nicolas Jullien , Laurent Mell , Sasha Piccione , Jeanne Vermeirsche

Contributing to history has never been as easy as it is today. Anyone with access to the Web is able to play a part on Wikipedia, an open and free encyclopedia. Wikipedia, available in many languages, is one of the most visited websites in…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-12-29 Eduardo Graells-Garrido , Mounia Lalmas , Filippo Menczer

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 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…

With 60M articles in more than 300 language versions, Wikipedia is the largest platform for open and freely accessible knowledge. While the available content has been growing continuously at a rate of around 200K new articles each month,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Akhil Arora , Robert West , Martin Gerlach

Wikipedia is one of the most popular sites on the Web, with millions of users relying on it to satisfy a broad range of information needs every day. Although it is crucial to understand what exactly these needs are in order to be able to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-03-17 Philipp Singer , Florian Lemmerich , Robert West , Leila Zia , Ellery Wulczyn , Markus Strohmaier , Jure Leskovec

A growing body of work has highlighted the important role that Wikipedia's volunteer-created content plays in helping search engines achieve their core goal of addressing the information needs of millions of people. In this paper, we report…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-04-23 Nicholas Vincent , Brent Hecht

Wikipedia is a global crowdsourced encyclopedia that at time of writing is available in 287 languages. Wikidata is a likewise global crowdsourced knowledge base that provides shared facts to be used by Wikipedias. In the context of this…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2014-02-06 Thomas Steiner

In epistemic community, people are said to be selected on their knowledge contribution to the project (articles, codes, etc.) However, the socialization process is an important factor for inclusion, sustainability as a contributor, and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-01-08 Romain Picot-Clémente , Cécile Bothorel , Nicolas Jullien

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 is nowadays a widely used encyclopedia, and one of the most visible sites on the Internet. Its strong principle of collaborative work and free editing sometimes generates disputes due to disagreements between users. In this…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2008-12-18 Bernard Jacquemin , Aurélien Lauf , Céline Poudat , Martine Hurault-Plantet , Nicolas Auray

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 cumulative effect of collective online participation has an important and adverse impact on individual privacy. As an online system evolves over time, new digital traces of individual behavior may uncover previously hidden statistical…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-12-18 Marian-Andrei Rizoiu , Lexing Xie , Tiberio Caetano , Manuel Cebrian

The Internet has significantly expanded the potential for global collaboration, allowing millions of users to contribute to collective projects like Wikipedia. While prior work has assessed the success of online collaborations, most…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Abraham Israeli , David Jurgens , Daniel Romero

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

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, 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 a major source of information providing a large variety of content online, trusted by readers from around the world. Readers go to Wikipedia to get reliable information about different subjects, one of the most popular being…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-06-25 Pushkal Agarwal , Miriam Redi , Nishanth Sastry , Edward Wood , Andrew Blick