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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

Organizing complex peer production projects and advancing scientific knowledge of open collaboration each depend on the ability to measure quality. Article quality ratings on English language Wikipedia have been widely used by both…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-02 Nathan TeBlunthuis

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

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

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

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'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…

We propose an automatic language-independent graph-based method to build \`a-la-carte article collections on user-defined domains from the Wikipedia. The core model is based on the exploration of the encyclopaedia's category graph and can…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Cristina España-Bonet , Alberto Barrón-Cedeño , Lluís Màrquez

With over 60M articles, Wikipedia has become the largest platform for open and freely accessible knowledge. While it has more than 15B monthly visits, its content is believed to be inaccessible to many readers due to the lack of readability…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Mykola Trokhymovych , Indira Sen , Martin Gerlach

A Wikipedia book (known as Wikibook) is a collection of Wikipedia articles on a particular theme that is organized as a book. We propose Wikibook-Bot, a machine-learning based technique for automatically generating high quality Wikibooks…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2018-12-31 Shahar Admati , Lior Rokach , Bracha Shapira

An important editing policy in Wikipedia is to provide citations for added statements in Wikipedia pages, where statements can be arbitrary pieces of text, ranging from a sentence to a paragraph. In many cases citations are either outdated…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-04-26 Besnik Fetahu , Katja Markert , Wolfgang Nejdl , Avishek Anand

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…

Using 16,068 articles in Wikipedia's Medicine Wikiproject, we study the relationship between collaboration and quality. We assess whether certain collaborative patterns are associated with information quality in terms of self-evaluated…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2012-04-17 Gerald C. Kane , Sam Ransbotham

Wikipedia is among the largest examples of collective intelligence on the Web with over 61 million articles covering over 320 languages. Although edited and maintained by an active workforce of human volunteers, Wikipedia is highly reliant…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Neal Reeves , Elena Simperl

We make a first attempt to characterize image accessibility on Wikipedia across languages, present new experimental results that can inform efforts to assess description quality, and offer some strategies to improve Wikipedia's image…

Knowledge discovery and collection are intelligence-intensive tasks that traditionally require significant human effort to ensure high-quality outputs. Recent research has explored multi-agent frameworks for automating Wikipedia-style…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Zhongyu Yang , Jun Chen , Dannong Xu , Junjie Fei , Xiaoqian Shen , Liangbing Zhao , Chun-Mei Feng , Mohamed Elhoseiny

The voluntary process of Wikipedia edition provides an environment where the outcome is clearly a collective product of interactions involving a large number of people. We propose a simple agent-based model, developed from real data, to…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-06-22 Y. Gandica , F. Sampaio dos Aidos , J. Carvalho

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of cooperative principle on the information quality (IQ) by making objects more relevant for consumer needs, in particular case Wikipedia articles for students.…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2018-07-11 Miloš Fidler , Dejan Lavbič

Wikipedia is a free Internet encyclopedia with an enormous amount of content. This encyclopedia is written by volunteers with various backgrounds in a collective fashion; anyone can access and edit most of the articles. This open-editing…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-01-26 Jinhyuk Yun , Sang Hoon Lee , Hawoong Jeong

With the growth of fake news and disinformation, the NLP community has been working to assist humans in fact-checking. However, most academic research has focused on model accuracy without paying attention to resource efficiency, which is…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-09-03 Mykola Trokhymovych , Diego Saez-Trumper