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Wikipedia articles aim to be definitive sources of encyclopedic content. Yet, only 0.6% of Wikipedia articles have high quality according to its quality scale due to insufficient number of Wikipedia editors and enormous number of articles.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-08-06 Sumit Asthana , Sabrina Tobar Thommel , Aaron Lee Halfaker , Nikola Banovic

Wikipedia, a paradigmatic example of online knowledge space is organized in a collaborative, bottom-up way with voluntary contributions, yet it maintains a level of reliability comparable to that of traditional encyclopedias. The lack of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-05-24 Fumiko Ogushi , János Kertész , Kimmo Kaski , Takashi Shimada

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

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

Wikipedia is the largest open knowledge corpus, widely used worldwide and serving as a key resource for training large language models (LLMs) and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems. Ensuring its accuracy is therefore critical. But…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Sina J. Semnani , Jirayu Burapacheep , Arpandeep Khatua , Thanawan Atchariyachanvanit , Zheng Wang , Monica S. Lam

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

AI tools are increasingly deployed in community contexts. However, datasets used to evaluate AI are typically created by developers and annotators outside a given community, which can yield misleading conclusions about AI performance. How…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-02-23 Tzu-Sheng Kuo , Aaron Halfaker , Zirui Cheng , Jiwoo Kim , Meng-Hsin Wu , Tongshuang Wu , Kenneth Holstein , Haiyi Zhu

Generative search engines directly generate responses to user queries, along with in-line citations. A prerequisite trait of a trustworthy generative search engine is verifiability, i.e., systems should cite comprehensively (high citation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Nelson F. Liu , Tianyi Zhang , Percy Liang

Traditional fact checking by expert journalists cannot keep up with the enormous volume of information that is now generated online. Computational fact checking may significantly enhance our ability to evaluate the veracity of dubious…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-07-01 Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia , Prashant Shiralkar , Luis M. Rocha , Johan Bollen , Filippo Menczer , Alessandro Flammini

Over the last few years, verifying the credibility of information sources has become a fundamental need to combat disinformation. Here, we present a language-agnostic model designed to assess the reliability of web domains as sources in…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Jacopo D'Ignazi , Andreas Kaltenbrunner , Yelena Mejova , Michele Tizzani , Kyriaki Kalimeri , Mariano Beiró , Pablo Aragón

The proliferation of misinformation poses a significant threat to society, exacerbated by the capabilities of generative AI. This demo paper introduces Veracity, an open-source AI system designed to empower individuals to combat…

Textual knowledge bases such as Wikipedia require considerable effort to keep up to date and consistent. While automated writing assistants could potentially ease this burden, the problem of suggesting edits grounded in external knowledge…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-14 Robert L. Logan , Alexandre Passos , Sameer Singh , Ming-Wei Chang

In recent decades, the rapid growth of Internet adoption is offering opportunities for convenient and inexpensive access to scientific information. Wikipedia, one of the largest encyclopedias worldwide, has become a reference in this…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2022-01-31 Puyu Yang , Giovanni Colavizza

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

Finding relevant information from large document collections such as the World Wide Web is a common task in our daily lives. Estimation of a user's interest or search intention is necessary to recommend and retrieve relevant information…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2016-12-09 Manuel J. A. Eugster , Tuukka Ruotsalo , Michiel M. Spapé , Oswald Barral , Niklas Ravaja , Giulio Jacucci , Samuel Kaski

AI-powered search systems are emerging as new information gatekeepers, fundamentally transforming how users access news and information. Despite their growing influence, the citation patterns of these systems remain poorly understood. We…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Kai-Cheng Yang

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

Disinformation and false content produced by generative AI pose a significant challenge for journalists and fact-checkers who must rapidly verify digital media information. While there is an abundance of NLP models for detecting credibility…

A quarter century ago, Wikipedia's decentralized, crowdsourced, and consensus-driven model replaced the centralized, expert-driven, and authority-based standard for encyclopedic knowledge curation. The emergence of generative AI…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Aliakbar Mehdizadeh , Martin Hilbert

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