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The Internet has provided us with great opportunities for large scale collaborative public good projects. Wikipedia is a predominant example of such projects where conflicts emerge and get resolved through bottom-up mechanisms leading to…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-06-30 Csilla Rudas , Olivér Surányi , Taha Yasseri , János Török

Nowadays, thanks to Web 2.0 technologies, people have the possibility to generate and spread contents on different social media in a very easy way. In this context, the evaluation of the quality of the information that is available online…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-12-10 Elias Bassani , Marco Viviani

Wikipedia is edited by volunteer editors around the world. Considering the large amount of existing content (e.g. over 5M articles in English Wikipedia), deciding what to edit next can be difficult, both for experienced users that usually…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-09-25 Oleksii Moskalenko , Denis Parra , Diego Saez-Trumper

Large language models (LLMs) are reshaping knowledge production as community members increasingly incorporate them into their contribution workflows. However, participating in knowledge communities involves more than just contributing…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Moyan Zhou , Soobin Cho , Loren Terveen

Online knowledge platforms such as Stack Overflow and Wikipedia rely on a large and diverse contributor community. Despite efforts to facilitate onboarding of new users, relatively few users become core contributors, suggesting the…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-10-09 Timur Bachschi , Aniko Hannak , Florian Lemmerich , Johannes Wachs

Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia that anyone can edit, is one of the most visited sites on the Web and a common source of information for many users. As an encyclopedia, Wikipedia is not a source of original information, but was…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-01-28 Tiziano Piccardi , Miriam Redi , Giovanni Colavizza , Robert West

In recent years, there has been a huge increase in the number of bots online, varying from Web crawlers for search engines, to chatbots for online customer service, spambots on social media, and content-editing bots in online collaboration…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-02-28 Milena Tsvetkova , Ruth García-Gavilanes , Luciano Floridi , Taha Yasseri

In this article I reflect upon the problems connected with writing women in mathematics into Wikipedia. I discuss some of the current projects and efforts aimed at increasing the visibility of women in mathematics on Wikipedia. I present…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2017-12-01 Marie A. Vitulli

Wikipedia, an open collaborative website, can be edited by anyone, even anonymously, thus becoming victim to ill-intentioned changes. Therefore, ranking Wikipedia authors by calculating impact measures based on the edit history can help to…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2017-09-06 Sebastian Neef

The Wikipedia editors' community has been actively pursuing the intent of achieving gender equality. To that end, it is important to explore the historical evolution of underlying gender disparities in Wikipedia articles. This paper…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-01-23 Yahya Yunus , Tianwa Chen , Gianluca Demartini

Wikipedia is the largest online encyclopedia: its open contribution policy allows everyone to edit and share their knowledge. A challenge of radical openness is that it facilitates introducing biased contents or perspectives in Wikipedia.…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Puyu Yang , Giovanni Colavizza

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

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

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

Algorithmic systems---from rule-based bots to machine learning classifiers---have a long history of supporting the essential work of content moderation and other curation work in peer production projects. From counter-vandalism to task…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-08-21 Aaron Halfaker , R. Stuart Geiger

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

Gender imbalance in Wikipedia content is a known challenge which the editor community is actively addressing. The aim of this paper is to provide the Wikipedia community with instruments to estimate the magnitude of the problem for…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Hrishikesh Patel , Tianwa Chen , Ivano Bongiovanni , Gianluca Demartini

Wikipedia, a vast and continuously consulted knowledge base, faces significant challenges in maintaining up-to-date content due to its reliance on manual human editors. Inspired by the vision of continuous knowledge acquisition in NELL and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Revanth Gangi Reddy , Tanay Dixit , Jiaxin Qin , Cheng Qian , Daniel Lee , Jiawei Han , Kevin Small , Xing Fan , Ruhi Sarikaya , Heng Ji

Wikipedia is a community-created online encyclopedia; arguably, it is the most popular and largest knowledge resource on the Internet. Thus, reliability and neutrality are of high importance for Wikipedia. Previous research [3] reveals…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2017-02-06 Olga Zagovora

Contributing to the writing of history has never been as easy as it is today thanks to Wikipedia, a community-created encyclopedia that aims to document the world's knowledge from a neutral point of view. Though everyone can participate it…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-03-04 Claudia Wagner , Eduardo Graells-Garrido , David Garcia , Filippo Menczer