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Several studies have used Wikipedia (WP) data-set to analyse worldwide human preferences by languages. However, those studies could suffer from bias related to exceptional social circumstances. Any massive event promoting the exceptional…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-05-17 Julien Assuied , Yérali Gandica

Sharing data can often enable compelling applications and analytics. However, more often than not, valuable datasets contain information of a sensitive nature, and thus, sharing them can endanger the privacy of users and organizations. A…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-28 Emiliano De Cristofaro

Nowadays, editors tend to separate different subtopics of a long Wiki-pedia article into multiple sub-articles. This separation seeks to improve human readability. However, it also has a deleterious effect on many Wikipedia-based tasks that…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-06-24 Muhao Chen , Changping Meng , Gang Huang , Carlo Zaniolo

Measures for research activity and impact have become an integral ingredient in the assessment of a wide range of entities (individual researchers, organizations, instruments, regions, disciplines). Traditional bibliometric indicators, like…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2020-04-22 Edwin A. Henneken , Michael J. Kurtz

For many people, Wikipedia represents one of the primary sources of knowledge about foreign cultures. Yet, different Wikipedia language editions offer different descriptions of cultural practices. Unveiling diverging representations of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-07-14 Paul Laufer , Claudia Wagner , Fabian Flöck , Markus Strohmaier

While Wikipedia exists in 287 languages, its content is unevenly distributed among them. In this work, we investigate the generation of open domain Wikipedia summaries in underserved languages using structured data from Wikidata. To this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-01 Lucie-Aimée Kaffee , Hady Elsahar , Pavlos Vougiouklis , Christophe Gravier , Frédérique Laforest , Jonathon Hare , Elena Simperl

The Web and its main tools (Google, Wikipedia, Facebook, Twitter) deeply raise and renew fundamental questions, that everyone asks almost every day: Is this information or content true? Can I trust this author or source? These questions are…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-01-13 Gilles Sahut , André Tricot

Wikipedia is the world's largest online encyclopedia, but maintaining article quality through collaboration is challenging. Wikipedia designed a quality scale, but with such a manual assessment process, many articles remain unassessed. We…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-04 Pedro Miguel Moás , Carla Teixeira Lopes

Web articles such as Wikipedia serve as one of the major sources of knowledge dissemination and online learning. However, their in-depth information--often in a dense text format--may not be suitable for mobile browsing, even in a…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Daniel Nkemelu , Peggy Chi , Daniel Castro Chin , Krishna Srinivasan , Irfan Essa

The different Wikipedia language editions vary dramatically in how comprehensive they are. As a result, most language editions contain only a small fraction of the sum of information that exists across all Wikipedias. In this paper, we…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-04-13 Ellery Wulczyn , Robert West , Leila Zia , Jure Leskovec

Portrayals of history are never complete, and each description inherently exhibits a specific viewpoint and emphasis. In this paper, we aim to automatically identify such differences by computing timelines and detecting temporal focal…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2017-05-25 Anna Samoilenko , Florian Lemmerich , Katrin Weller , Maria Zens , Markus Strohmaier

Wikidata is a collaborative knowledge graph which provides machine-readable structured data for Wikimedia projects including Wikipedia. Managed by a community of volunteers, it has grown to become the most edited Wikimedia project. However,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Marisa Ripoll , Neal Reeves , Anelia Kurteva , Elena Simperl , Albert Meroño Peñuela , Klaus Diepold

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

Among the manifold takes on world literature, it is our goal to contribute to the discussion from a digital point of view by analyzing the representation of world literature in Wikipedia with its millions of articles in hundreds of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-01-05 Christoph Hube , Frank Fischer , Robert Jäschke , Gerhard Lauer , Mads Rosendahl Thomsen

Online platforms, particularly Wikipedia, have become critical infrastructures for providing diverse linguistic and cultural contexts. This human-curated knowledge now forms the foundation for modern AI. However, we have not yet fully…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Akira Matsui , Fujio Toriumi , Mitsuo Yoshida , Taichi Murayama , Shiori Hironaka

This paper proposes to tackle open- domain question answering using Wikipedia as the unique knowledge source: the answer to any factoid question is a text span in a Wikipedia article. This task of machine reading at scale combines the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-05-01 Danqi Chen , Adam Fisch , Jason Weston , Antoine Bordes

Wikipedia can be edited by anyone and thus contains various quality sentences. Therefore, Wikipedia includes some poor-quality edits, which are often marked up by other editors. While editors' reviews enhance the credibility of Wikipedia,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-02 Kenichiro Ando , Satoshi Sekine , Mamoru Komachi

Wikidata is an open knowledge graph created, managed, and maintained collaboratively by a global community of volunteers. As it continues to grow, it faces substantial editor engagement challenges, including acquiring new editors to tackle…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Kholoud Alghamdi , Miaojing Shi , Elena Simperl

Social media platforms, increasingly used as news sources for varied data analytics, have transformed how information is generated and disseminated. However, the unverified nature of this content raises concerns about trustworthiness and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Francisco de Arriba-Pérez , Silvia García-Méndez , Fátima Leal , Benedita Malheiro , Juan C Burguillo

Wikipedia is the largest online encyclopedia that allows anyone to edit articles. In this paper, we propose the use of deep learning to detect vandals based on their edit history. In particular, we develop a multi-source long-short term…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-06-06 Shuhan Yuan , Panpan Zheng , Xintao Wu , Yang Xiang