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The production and consumption of information about Bitcoin and other digital-, or 'crypto'-, currencies have grown together with their market capitalisation. However, a systematic investigation of the relationship between online attention…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-05-22 Abeer ElBahrawy , Laura Alessandretti , Andrea Baronchelli

Wikipedia articles are by definition never finished: at any moment their content can be edited, or discussed in the associated talk pages. In this study we analyse the evolution of these discussions to unveil patterns of collective…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2012-07-11 Andreas Kaltenbrunner , David Laniado

Wikipedia entity pages are a valuable source of information for direct consumption and for knowledge-base construction, update and maintenance. Facts in these entity pages are typically supported by references. Recent studies show that as…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-03-31 Besnik Fetahu , Katja Markert , Avishek Anand

It is arguable whether history is made by great men and women or vice versa, but undoubtably social connections shape history. Analysing Wikipedia, a global collective memory place, we aim to understand how social links are recorded across…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2012-07-05 Pablo Aragón , Andreas Kaltenbrunner , David Laniado , Yana Volkovich

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…

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With more than 11 times as many pageviews as the next largest edition, English Wikipedia dominates global knowledge access relative to other language editions. Readers are prone to assuming English Wikipedia as a superset of all language…

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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

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 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

The Wikipedia is a web portal created by users and its simplicity, references and also the inclusion as insets introductory paragraphs for their pages in Google search results have made it the go-to place to find out about current events or…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-03-13 JJ Merelo-Guervós , Elena Merelo-Molina

We conducted a global comparative analysis of the coverage of American topics in different language versions of Wikipedia, using over 90 million Wikidata items and 40 million Wikipedia articles in 58 languages. Our study aimed to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Piotr Konieczny , Włodzimierz Lewoniewski

Research into socio-technical systems like Wikipedia has overlooked important structural patterns in the coordination of distributed work. This paper argues for a conceptual reorientation towards sequences as a fundamental unit of analysis…

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Wikipedia has high-quality articles on a variety of topics and has been used in diverse research areas. In this study, a method is presented for using Wikipedia's editor information to build recommender systems in various domains that…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Katsuhiko Hayashi

In this paper, we present a dataset of inter-language knowledge propagation in Wikipedia. Covering the entire 309 language editions and 33M articles, the dataset aims to track the full propagation history of Wikipedia concepts, and allow…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-04-01 Roldolfo Valentim , Giovanni Comarela , Souneil Park , Diego Saez-Trumper

We introduce a model for predicting page-view dynamics of promoted content. The regularity of the content promotion process on Wikipedia provides excellent experimental conditions which favour detailed modelling. We show that the popularity…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2013-09-12 Marijn ten Thij , Yana Volkovich , David Laniado , Andreas Kaltenbrunner

Human cognition exhibits strong circadian modulation, yet its influence on high-dimensional semantic behavior remains poorly understood. Using large-scale Reddit data, we quantify time-of-day variation in language use by embedding text into…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Vuong Hung Truong , Mariana Gabrielle Cangco Reyes , Masatoshi Koizumi , Jihwan Myung

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

Wikipedia, as a social phenomenon of collaborative knowledge creating, has been studied extensively from various points of views. The category system of Wikipedia, introduced in 2004, has attracted relatively little attention. In this…

Physics and Society · Physics 2012-03-06 Krzysztof Suchecki , Alkim Almila Akdag Salah , Cheng Gao , Andrea Scharnhorst

Wikipedia articles representing an entity or a topic in different language editions evolve independently within the scope of the language-specific user communities. This can lead to different points of views reflected in the articles, as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-02-03 Simon Gottschalk , Elena Demidova