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The dataset focuses on Wikipedia users and contains information about demographic and socioeconomic characteristics of the respondents and their activity on Wikipedia. The data was collected using a questionnaire available online between…

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"Wiki rabbit holes" are informally defined as navigation paths followed by Wikipedia readers that lead them to long explorations, sometimes involving unexpected articles. Although wiki rabbit holes are a popular concept in Internet culture,…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Tiziano Piccardi , Martin Gerlach , Robert West

With the rapid accumulation of online information, efficient web navigation has grown vital yet challenging. To create an easily navigable cyberspace catering to diverse demographics, understanding how people navigate differently is…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-09-27 Manran Zhu , Taha Yasseri , János Kertész

Cursor tracking data contains information about website visitors which may provide new ways to understand visitors and their needs. This paper presents an Amazon Mechanical Turk study where participants were tracked as they used modified…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2015-02-04 David Warnock , Mounia Lalmas

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

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 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

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 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

Hyperlinks are an essential feature of the World Wide Web. They are especially important for online encyclopedias such as Wikipedia: an article can often only be understood in the context of related articles, and hyperlinks make it easy to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Robert West , Ashwin Paranjape , Jure Leskovec

Today, more and more open data statistics are published by governments, statistical offices and organizations like the United Nations, The World Bank or Eurostat. This data is freely available and can be consumed by end users in interactive…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2015-04-28 Daniel Hienert , Dennis Wegener , Siegfried Schomisch

The frequency of a web search keyword generally reflects the degree of public interest in a particular subject matter. Search logs are therefore useful resources for trend analysis. However, access to search logs is typically restricted to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-09-09 Mitsuo Yoshida , Yuki Arase , Takaaki Tsunoda , Mikio Yamamoto

We test the hypothesis that the extent to which one obtains information on a given topic through Wikipedia depends on the language in which it is consulted. Controlling the size factor, we investigate this hypothesis for a number of 25…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Alexander Mehler , Wahed Hemati , Pascal Welke , Maxim Konca , Tolga Uslu

Understanding how people interact with the web is key for a variety of applications, e.g., from the design of effective web pages to the definition of successful online marketing campaigns. Browsing behavior has been traditionally…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-05-05 Luca Vassio , Idilio Drago , Marco Mellia , Zied Ben Houidi , Mohamed Lamine Lamali

To cope with the large number of publications, more and more researchers are automatically extracting data of interest using natural language processing methods based on supervised learning. Much data, especially in the natural and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Jan Göpfert , Patrick Kuckertz , Jann M. Weinand , Detlef Stolten

We present WikiReading, a large-scale natural language understanding task and publicly-available dataset with 18 million instances. The task is to predict textual values from the structured knowledge base Wikidata by reading the text of the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-03-17 Daniel Hewlett , Alexandre Lacoste , Llion Jones , Illia Polosukhin , Andrew Fandrianto , Jay Han , Matthew Kelcey , David Berthelot

Wikipedia is one of the most visited websites globally, yet its role beyond its own platform remains largely unexplored. In this paper, we present the first large-scale analysis of how Wikipedia is referenced across the Web. Using a dataset…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Veniamin Veselovsky , Tiziano Piccardi , Ashton Anderson , Robert West , Akhil Arora

In this work, we propose an automatic evaluation and comparison of the browsing behavior of Wikipedia readers that can be applied to any language editions of Wikipedia. As an example, we focus on English, French, and Russian languages…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Volodymyr Miz , Joëlle Hanna , Nicolas Aspert , Benjamin Ricaud , Pierre Vandergheynst

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

Wikipedia hyperlinks have primarily been studied as navigational tools for readers, but their role in how information providers move between articles during editing remains less explored. Here, we combine the hyperlink network among English…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-05-19 Yeonji Seo , Mi Jin Lee , Seung-Woo Son , Hang-Hyun Jo , Yohsuke Murase