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Automated content moderation for collaborative knowledge hubs like Wikipedia or Wikidata is an important yet challenging task due to multiple factors. In this paper, we construct a database of discussions happening around articles marked…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Hsuvas Borkakoty , Luis Espinosa-Anke

Wikipedia is a popular web-based encyclopedia edited freely and collaboratively by its users. In this paper we present an analysis of Wikipedias in several languages as complex networks. The hyperlinks pointing from one Wikipedia article to…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-11-11 V. Zlatic , M. Bozicevic , H. Stefancic , M. Domazet

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 is the largest existing knowledge repository that is growing on a genuine crowdsourcing support. While the English Wikipedia is the most extensive and the most researched one with over five million articles, comparatively little…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2017-10-20 Kristina Ban , Matjaz Perc , Zoran Levnajic

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

We present, visualize and analyse the similarities and differences between the controversial topics related to "edit wars" identified in 10 different language versions of Wikipedia. After a brief review of the related work we describe the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-01-05 Taha Yasseri , Anselm Spoerri , Mark Graham , János Kertész

We conducted a global comparative analysis of the coverage of American topics in different language versions of Wikipedia, using over 90 million Wikidata items and 40 million Wikipedia articles in 58 languages. Our study aimed to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Piotr Konieczny , Włodzimierz Lewoniewski

In this paper we present the Wikipedia Cultural Diversity dataset. For each existing Wikipedia language edition, the dataset contains a classification of the articles that represent its associated cultural context, i.e. all concepts and…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2019-06-11 Marc Miquel-Ribé , David Laniado

Wikipedia is a useful knowledge source that benefits many applications in language processing and knowledge representation. An important feature of Wikipedia is that of categories. Wikipedia pages are assigned different categories according…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-04-26 Yanqing Chen , Steven Skiena

INTRODUCTION: Wikipedia is a major source of information, particularly for medical and health content, citing over 4 million scholarly publications. However, the representation of research-based knowledge across different languages on…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Michael Taylor , Roisi Proven , Carlos Areia

One of the most impressive human endeavors of the past two decades is the collection and categorization of human knowledge in the free and accessible format that is Wikipedia. In this work we ask what makes a term worthy of entering this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-18 Yonatan Bilu , Shai Gretz , Edo Cohen , Noam Slonim

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

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 one of the main repositories of free knowledge available today, with a central role in the Web ecosystem. For this reason, it can also be a battleground for actors trying to impose specific points of view or even spreading…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-07-01 Pablo Aragón , Diego Sáez-Trumper

We present Wikipedia-based Polyglot Dirichlet Allocation (WikiPDA), a crosslingual topic model that learns to represent Wikipedia articles written in any language as distributions over a common set of language-independent topics. It…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Tiziano Piccardi , Robert West

In today's world, we follow news which is distributed globally. Significant events are reported by different sources and in different languages. In this work, we address the problem of tracking of events in a large multilingual stream.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2015-12-23 Jan Rupnik , Andrej Muhic , Gregor Leban , Primoz Skraba , Blaz Fortuna , Marko Grobelnik

Wikidata is steadily becoming more central to Wikipedia, not just in maintaining interlanguage links, but in automated population of content within the articles themselves. It is not well understood, however, how widespread this…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Isaac Johnson

Hyperlinks constitute the backbone of the Web; they enable user navigation, information discovery, content ranking, and many other crucial services on the Internet. In particular, hyperlinks found within Wikipedia allow the readers to…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Martin Gerlach , Marshall Miller , Rita Ho , Kosta Harlan , Djellel Difallah

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

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