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Wikipedia is a rich and invaluable source of information. Its central place on the Web makes it a particularly interesting object of study for scientists. Researchers from different domains used various complex datasets related to Wikipedia…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-03-21 Nicolas Aspert , Volodymyr Miz , Benjamin Ricaud , Pierre Vandergheynst

We present a new dataset of Wikipedia articles each paired with a knowledge graph, to facilitate the research in conditional text generation, graph generation and graph representation learning. Existing graph-text paired datasets typically…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-21 Luyu Wang , Yujia Li , Ozlem Aslan , Oriol Vinyals

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

Knowledge bases are very good sources for knowledge extraction, the ability to create knowledge from structured and unstructured sources and use it to improve automatic processes as query expansion. However, extracting knowledge from…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2015-05-07 Joan Guisado-Gámez , Arnau Prat-Pérez

The Internet-based encyclopaedia Wikipedia has grown to become one of the most visited web-sites on the Internet. However, critics have questioned the quality of entries, and an empirical study has shown Wikipedia to contain errors in a…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2011-01-04 Finn Aarup Nielsen

The increasing availability of biological data is improving our understanding of diseases and providing new insight into their underlying relationships. Thanks to the improvements on both text mining techniques and computational capacity,…

Despite the importance and pervasiveness of Wikipedia as one of the largest platforms for open knowledge, surprisingly little is known about how people navigate its content when seeking information. To bridge this gap, we present the first…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-01-19 Tiziano Piccardi , Martin Gerlach , Akhil Arora , Robert West

Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia that anyone can edit, is one of the most visited sites on the Web and a common source of information for many users. As an encyclopedia, Wikipedia is not a source of original information, but was…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-01-28 Tiziano Piccardi , Miriam Redi , Giovanni Colavizza , Robert West

Wikipedia is a well-known platform for disseminating knowledge, and scientific sources, such as journal articles, play a critical role in supporting its mission. The open access movement aims to make scientific knowledge openly available,…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Puyu Yang , Ahad Shoaib , Robert West , Giovanni Colavizza

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

As one of the richest sources of encyclopedic information on the Web, Wikipedia generates an enormous amount of traffic. In this paper, we study large-scale article access data of the English Wikipedia in order to compare articles with…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-05-11 Dimitar Dimitrov , Florian Lemmerich , Fabian Flöck , Markus Strohmaier

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 source of free encyclopedic knowledge and one of the most visited sites on the Web. To increase reader understanding of the article, Wikipedia editors add images within the text of the article's body. However,…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-12-06 Daniele Rama , Tiziano Piccardi , Miriam Redi , Rossano Schifanella

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

We present a new concept - Wikiometrics - the derivation of metrics and indicators from Wikipedia. Wikipedia provides an accurate representation of the real world due to its size, structure, editing policy and popularity. We demonstrate an…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2016-01-11 Gilad Katz , Lior Rokach

By linking to external websites, Wikipedia can act as a gateway to the Web. To date, however, little is known about the amount of traffic generated by Wikipedia's external links. We fill this gap in a detailed analysis of usage logs…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Tiziano Piccardi , Miriam Redi , Giovanni Colavizza , Robert West

Wikipedia is a goldmine of information; not just for its many readers, but also for the growing community of researchers who recognize it as a resource of exceptional scale and utility. It represents a vast investment of manual effort and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2009-05-10 Olena Medelyan , David Milne , Catherine Legg , Ian H. Witten

Wikipedia serves as a globally accessible knowledge source with content in over 300 languages. Despite covering the same topics, the different versions of Wikipedia are written and updated independently. This leads to factual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Silvia Cappa , Lingxiao Kong , Pille-Riin Peet , Fanfu Wei , Yuchen Zhou , Jan-Christoph Kalo

Wikipedia is one of the most popular sites on the Web, with millions of users relying on it to satisfy a broad range of information needs every day. Although it is crucial to understand what exactly these needs are in order to be able to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-03-17 Philipp Singer , Florian Lemmerich , Robert West , Leila Zia , Ellery Wulczyn , Markus Strohmaier , Jure Leskovec

There are over a billion websites on the Internet that can potentially serve as sources of information on various topics. One of the most popular examples of such an online source is Wikipedia. This public knowledge base is co-edited by…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-05-02 Włodzimierz Lewoniewski , Krzysztof Węcel , Witold Abramowicz
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