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The Wikimedia Foundation has recently observed that newly joining editors on Wikipedia are increasingly failing to integrate into the Wikipedia editors' community, i.e. the community is becoming increasingly harder to penetrate. To sustain…

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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 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

Wikipedia is a major source of information providing a large variety of content online, trusted by readers from around the world. Readers go to Wikipedia to get reliable information about different subjects, one of the most popular being…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-06-25 Pushkal Agarwal , Miriam Redi , Nishanth Sastry , Edward Wood , Andrew Blick

Wikipedia, in its role as the world's largest encyclopedia, serves a broad range of information needs. Although previous studies have noted that Wikipedia users' information needs vary throughout the day, there is to date no large-scale,…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Tiziano Piccardi , Martin Gerlach , Robert West

With this work, we present a publicly available dataset of the history of all the references (more than 55 million) ever used in the English Wikipedia until June 2019. We have applied a new method for identifying and monitoring references…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-10-08 Olga Zagovora , Roberto Ulloa , Katrin Weller , Fabian Flöck

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 represents the largest and most popular source of encyclopedic knowledge in the world today, aiming to provide equal access to information worldwide. From a global online survey of 65,031 readers of Wikipedia and their…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-07-22 Isaac Johnson , Florian Lemmerich , Diego Sáez-Trumper , Robert West , Markus Strohmaier , Leila Zia

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 is a community-created encyclopedia that contains information about notable people from different countries, epochs and disciplines and aims to document the world's knowledge from a neutral point of view. However, the narrow…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2015-03-25 Claudia Wagner , David Garcia , Mohsen Jadidi , Markus Strohmaier

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 is the biggest encyclopedia ever created and the fifth most visited website in the world. Tens of millions of people surf it every day, seeking answers to various questions. Collective user activity on its pages leaves publicly…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-02-15 Volodymyr Miz , Kirell Benzi , Benjamin Ricaud , Pierre Vandergheynst

Since its inception six years ago, the online encyclopedia Wikipedia has accumulated 6.40 million articles and 250 million edits, contributed in a predominantly undirected and haphazard fashion by 5.77 million unvetted volunteers. Despite…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Dennis M. Wilkinson , Bernardo A. Huberman

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

Wikipedia's contents are based on reliable and published sources. To this date, relatively little is known about what sources Wikipedia relies on, in part because extracting citations and identifying cited sources is challenging. To close…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Harshdeep Singh , Robert West , Giovanni Colavizza

Wikipedia is a critical source of information for millions of users across the Web. It serves as a key resource for large language models, search engines, question-answering systems, and other Web-based applications. In Wikipedia, content…

By choice or by necessity, some contributors to commons-based peer production sites use privacy-protecting services to remain anonymous. As anonymity seekers, users of the Tor network have been cast both as ill-intentioned vandals and as…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-09-06 Kaylea Champion , Nora McDonald , Stephanie Bankes , Joseph Zhang , Rachel Greenstadt , Andrea Forte , Benjamin Mako Hill

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

Wikidata is one of the most edited knowledge bases which contains structured data. It serves as the data source for many projects in the Wikimedia sphere and beyond. Since its inception in October 2012, it has been increasingly growing in…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Mariam Farda-Sarbas , Claudia Müller-Birn

The Internet has significantly expanded the potential for global collaboration, allowing millions of users to contribute to collective projects like Wikipedia. While prior work has assessed the success of online collaborations, most…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Abraham Israeli , David Jurgens , Daniel Romero