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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 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

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

Wikidata is a multi-language knowledge base that is being edited and maintained by editors from different language communities. Due to the structured nature of its content, the contributions are in various forms, including manual edit,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Jeffrey Jun-jie Ma , Charles Chuankai Zhang

In this paper we address the task of gender classification on picture sharing social media networks such as Instagram and Flickr. We aim to infer the gender of an user given only a small set of the images shared in its profile. We make the…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2018-10-11 David Semedo , João Magalhães , Flávio Martins

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

Textbooks play a critical role in shaping children's understanding of the world. While previous studies have identified gender inequality in individual countries' textbooks, few have examined the issue cross-culturally. This study applies…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Tairan Liu

Wikidata is currently the largest open knowledge graph on the web, encompassing over 120 million entities. It integrates data from various domain-specific databases and imports a substantial amount of content from Wikipedia, while also…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Shixiong Zhao , Hideaki Takeda

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

Wikipedia is one of the main repositories of free knowledge available today, with a central role in the Web ecosystem. For this reason, it can also be a battleground for actors trying to impose specific points of view or even spreading…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-07-01 Pablo Aragón , Diego Sáez-Trumper

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

In this paper we investigate the nature and structure of the relation between imposed classifications and real clustering in a particular case of a scale-free network given by the on-line encyclopedia Wikipedia. We find a statistical…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Capocci , F. Rao , G. Caldarelli

In this work, we propose an automatic evaluation and comparison of the browsing behavior of Wikipedia readers that can be applied to any language editions of Wikipedia. As an example, we focus on English, French, and Russian languages…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Volodymyr Miz , Joëlle Hanna , Nicolas Aspert , Benjamin Ricaud , Pierre Vandergheynst

An important editing policy in Wikipedia is to provide citations for added statements in Wikipedia pages, where statements can be arbitrary pieces of text, ranging from a sentence to a paragraph. In many cases citations are either outdated…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-04-26 Besnik Fetahu , Katja Markert , Wolfgang Nejdl , Avishek Anand

The Internet has provided us with great opportunities for large scale collaborative public good projects. Wikipedia is a predominant example of such projects where conflicts emerge and get resolved through bottom-up mechanisms leading to…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-06-30 Csilla Rudas , Olivér Surányi , Taha Yasseri , János Török

Organizing complex peer production projects and advancing scientific knowledge of open collaboration each depend on the ability to measure quality. Article quality ratings on English language Wikipedia have been widely used by both…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-02 Nathan TeBlunthuis

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

Our paper explores contribution patterns of creativity and collaboration of Wikipedia editors as manifestations of social dynamics between the editors. We find support for existence of four socially constructed personas among the editors…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-02-19 Pentti Launonen , KC Kern , Sanna Tiilikainen

We test the hypothesis that the extent to which one obtains information on a given topic through Wikipedia depends on the language in which it is consulted. Controlling the size factor, we investigate this hypothesis for a number of 25…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Alexander Mehler , Wahed Hemati , Pascal Welke , Maxim Konca , Tolga Uslu

As social issues related to gender bias attract closer scrutiny, accurate tools to determine the gender profile of large groups become essential. When explicit data is unavailable, gender is often inferred from names. Current methods follow…