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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 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

Wikipedia is the largest web repository of free knowledge. Volunteer editors devote time and effort to creating and expanding articles in more than 300 language editions. As content quality varies from article to article, editors also spend…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Paramita Das , Isaac Johnson , Diego Saez-Trumper , Pablo Aragón

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

This paper aims to review the fiercely discussed question of whether the ranking of Wikipedia articles in search engines is justified by the quality of the articles. After an overview of current research on information quality in Wikipedia,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2011-09-06 Dirk Lewandowski , Ulrike Spree

We propose an edit-centric approach to assess Wikipedia article quality as a complementary alternative to current full document-based techniques. Our model consists of a main classifier equipped with an auxiliary generative module which,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-20 Edison Marrese-Taylor , Pablo Loyola , Yutaka Matsuo

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…

Wikipedia, a paradigmatic example of online knowledge space is organized in a collaborative, bottom-up way with voluntary contributions, yet it maintains a level of reliability comparable to that of traditional encyclopedias. The lack of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-05-24 Fumiko Ogushi , János Kertész , Kimmo Kaski , Takashi Shimada

Wikipedia's perceived high quality and broad language coverage have established it as a fundamental resource in NLP. However, in recent years, such assumptions of high quality have become the subject of scrutiny in low-resource and…

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 verifiability of online information is important, but difficult to assess systematically. We examine verifiability in the case of Wikipedia, one of the world's largest and most consulted online information sources. We extend prior work…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-11-18 Reed H. Harder , Alfredo J. Velasco , Michael S. Evans , Daniel N. Rockmore

In this paper we address the challenge of assessing the quality of Wikipedia pages using scores derived from edit contribution and contributor authoritativeness measures. The hypothesis is that pages with significant contributions from…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-10-25 Xiangju Qin , Pádraig Cunningham

Wikipedia can be edited by anyone and thus contains various quality sentences. Therefore, Wikipedia includes some poor-quality edits, which are often marked up by other editors. While editors' reviews enhance the credibility of Wikipedia,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-02 Kenichiro Ando , Satoshi Sekine , Mamoru Komachi

Millions of people irrespective of socioeconomic and demographic backgrounds, depend on Wikipedia articles everyday for keeping themselves informed regarding popular as well as obscure topics. Articles have been categorized by editors into…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-10-15 Bhanu Prakash Reddy , Sasi Bhusan , Soumya Sarkar , Animesh Mukherjee

The information ecosystem today is overwhelmed by an unprecedented quantity of data on versatile topics are with varied quality. However, the quality of information disseminated in the field of medicine has been questioned as the negative…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-04-13 Fariha Afsana , Muhammad Ashad Kabir , Naeemul Hassan , Manoranjan Paul

Wikipedia has high-quality articles on a variety of topics and has been used in diverse research areas. In this study, a method is presented for using Wikipedia's editor information to build recommender systems in various domains that…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Katsuhiko Hayashi

Automatic quality evaluation of Web information is a task with many fields of applications and of great relevance, especially in critical domains like the medical one. We move from the intuition that the quality of content of medical Web…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2016-03-08 Vittoria Cozza , Marinella Petrocchi , Angelo Spognardi

Social media platforms, increasingly used as news sources for varied data analytics, have transformed how information is generated and disseminated. However, the unverified nature of this content raises concerns about trustworthiness and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Francisco de Arriba-Pérez , Silvia García-Méndez , Fátima Leal , Benedita Malheiro , Juan C Burguillo

The quality and quantity of articles in each Wikipedia language varies greatly. Translating from another Wikipedia is a natural way to add more content, but the translation process is not properly supported in the software used by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-06-08 Niklas Laxström , Pau Giner , Santhosh Thottingal

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
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