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The Thanks feature on Wikipedia, also known as "Thanks", is a tool with which editors can quickly and easily send one other positive feedback. The aim of this project is to better understand this feature: its scope, the characteristics of a…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2019-03-11 Swati Goel , Ashton Anderson , Leila Zia

Wikipedia relies on an extensive review process to verify that the content of each individual page is unbiased and presents a neutral point of view. Less attention has been paid to possible biases in the hyperlink structure of Wikipedia,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Cristina Menghini , Aris Anagnostopoulos , Eli Upfal

Online encyclopedia such as Wikipedia has become one of the best sources of knowledge. Much effort has been devoted to expanding and enriching the structured data by automatic information extraction from unstructured text in Wikipedia.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2014-06-26 Kezun Zhang , Yanghua Xiao , Hanghang Tong , Haixun Wang , Wei Wang

Writing Wikipedia with a neutral point of view is one of the five pillars of Wikipedia. Although the topic is core to Wikipedia, it is relatively understudied considering hundreds of research studies are published annually about the…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Isaac Johnson , Yu-Ming Liou , Jacob Rogers , Aaron Shaw , Leila Zia

Every day millions of people read Wikipedia. When navigating the vast space of available topics using hyperlinks, readers describe trajectories on the article network. Understanding these navigation patterns is crucial to better serve…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-01-10 Akhil Arora , Martin Gerlach , Tiziano Piccardi , Alberto García-Durán , Robert West

The production and consumption of information about Bitcoin and other digital-, or 'crypto'-, currencies have grown together with their market capitalisation. However, a systematic investigation of the relationship between online attention…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-05-22 Abeer ElBahrawy , Laura Alessandretti , Andrea Baronchelli

In this paper we present statistical analysis of English texts from Wikipedia. We try to address the issue of language complexity empirically by comparing the simple English Wikipedia (Simple) to comparable samples of the main English…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-05 Taha Yasseri , András Kornai , János Kertész

The use of citation counts to assess the impact of research articles is well established. However, the citation impact of an article can only be measured several years after it has been published. As research articles are increasingly…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Tim Brody , Stevan Harnad

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, 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

Hyperlinks and other relations in Wikipedia are a extraordinary resource which is still not fully understood. In this paper we study the different types of links in Wikipedia, and contrast the use of the full graph with respect to just…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-03-16 Eneko Agirre , Ander Barrena , Aitor Soroa

Information presented in Wikipedia articles must be attributable to reliable published sources in the form of references. This study examines over 5 million Wikipedia articles to assess the reliability of references in multiple language…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Aitolkyn Baigutanova , Diego Saez-Trumper , Miriam Redi , Meeyoung Cha , Pablo Aragón

Several hundred Wikipedia articles are deleted every day because they lack sufficient significance to be included in the encyclopedia. We collect a dataset of deleted articles and analyze them to determine whether or not the deletions were…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2013-05-24 Bluma S. Gelley

For almost 20 years, the Wikimedia Foundation has been publishing statistics about how many people visited each Wikipedia page on each day. This data helps Wikipedia editors determine where to focus their efforts to improve the online…

Wikipedia is a community-created encyclopedia that contains information about notable people from different countries, epochs and disciplines and aims to document the world's knowledge from a neutral point of view. However, the narrow…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2015-03-25 Claudia Wagner , David Garcia , Mohsen Jadidi , Markus Strohmaier

Wikipedia is one of the largest online encyclopedias, which relies on scientific publications as authoritative sources. The increasing prevalence of open access (OA) publishing has expanded the public availability of scientific knowledge;…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Puyu Yang , Vincent Traag , Rodrigo Costas , Giovanni Colavizza

Wikipedia (WP) as a collaborative, dynamical system of humans is an appropriate subject of social studies. Each single action of the members of this society, i.e. editors, is well recorded and accessible. Using the cumulative data of 34…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-01-05 Taha Yasseri , Róbert Sumi , János Kertész

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

Wikipedia is one of the most successful collaborative projects in history. It is the largest encyclopedia ever created, with millions of users worldwide relying on it as the first source of information as well as for fact-checking and…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Ivan Smirnov , Camelia Oprea , Markus Strohmaier

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