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Wikipedia is one of the most popular websites in the world, serving as a major source of information and learning resource for millions of users worldwide. While motivations for its usage vary, prior research suggests shallow information…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Neal Reeves , Wenjie Yin , Elena Simperl

Over the past 20 years, Wikipedia has gone from a rather outlandish idea to a major reference work, with more than 60 million articles across all languages, including nearly 7 million in English [Wiki01]. Around 27,000 of these articles…

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In this work, we are interested in the inner-cultural background shaping broad people's preferences. Our interest is also to track this human footprint, as it has the tendency to disappear due to the nowadays globalization. Given that…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-09-25 Yérali Gandica

With the rise of Wikipedia as a first-stop source for scientific knowledge, it is important to compare its representation of that knowledge to that of the academic literature. Here we identify the 250 most heavily used journals in each of…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2017-01-17 Misha Teplitskiy , Grace Lu , Eamon Duede

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

Information Synchronization of semi-structured data across languages is challenging. For instance, Wikipedia tables in one language should be synchronized across languages. To address this problem, we introduce a new dataset InfoSyncC and a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-10 Siddharth Khincha , Chelsi Jain , Vivek Gupta , Tushar Kataria , Shuo Zhang

The Internet has significantly expanded the potential for global collaboration, allowing millions of users to contribute to collective projects like Wikipedia. While prior work has assessed the success of online collaborations, most…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Abraham Israeli , David Jurgens , Daniel Romero

This study presents a comparative analysis of 55 Wikipedia language editions employing a citation index alongside a synthetic quality measure. Specifically, we identified the most significant Wikipedia articles within distinct topical…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Włodzimierz Lewoniewski , Krzysztof Węcel , Witold Abramowicz

Hoaxes are a recognised form of disinformation created deliberately, with potential serious implications in the credibility of reference knowledge resources such as Wikipedia. What makes detecting Wikipedia hoaxes hard is that they often…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-02 Hsuvas Borkakoty , Luis Espinosa-Anke

Misinformation and disinformation are growing threats in the digital age, affecting people across languages and borders. However, no research has investigated the prevalence of multilingual misinformation and quantified the extent to which…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Dorian Quelle , Calvin Cheng , Alexandre Bovet , Scott A. Hale

In this work, we open up the DAWT dataset - Densely Annotated Wikipedia Texts across multiple languages. The annotations include labeled text mentions mapping to entities (represented by their Freebase machine ids) as well as the type of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-03-06 Nemanja Spasojevic , Preeti Bhargava , Guoning Hu

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 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'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…

The vast amount of online information today poses challenges for non-English speakers, as much of it is concentrated in high-resource languages such as English and French. Wikipedia reflects this imbalance, with content in low-resource…

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Apples, porcupines, and the most obscure Bob Dylan song---is every topic a few clicks from Philosophy? Within Wikipedia, the surprising answer is yes: nearly all paths lead to Philosophy. Wikipedia is the largest, most meticulously indexed…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-12-08 Mark Ibrahim , Christopher M. Danforth , Peter Sheridan Dodds

With this work, we present a publicly available dataset of the history of all the references (more than 55 million) ever used in the English Wikipedia until June 2019. We have applied a new method for identifying and monitoring references…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-10-08 Olga Zagovora , Roberto Ulloa , Katrin Weller , Fabian Flöck

The use of Wikipedia citations in scholarly research has been the topic of much inquiry over the past decade. A cross-publisher study (Taylor & Francis and University of Michigan Press) convened by Digital Science was established in late…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Michael Taylor , Carlos Areia , Kath Burton , Charles Watkinson

This paper surveys 60 English Machine Reading Comprehension datasets, with a view to providing a convenient resource for other researchers interested in this problem. We categorize the datasets according to their question and answer form…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-11 Daria Dzendzik , Carl Vogel , Jennifer Foster