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Wikipedia relies on an extensive review process to verify that the content of each individual page is unbiased and presents a neutral point of view. Less attention has been paid to possible biases in the hyperlink structure of Wikipedia,…

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Large language models (LLMs) are trained on broad corpora and then used in communities with specialized norms. Is providing LLMs with community rules enough for models to follow these norms? We evaluate LLMs' capacity to detect (Task 1) and…

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Wikipedia is a free Internet encyclopedia with an enormous amount of content. This encyclopedia is written by volunteers with various backgrounds in a collective fashion; anyone can access and edit most of the articles. This open-editing…

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There is an ongoing debate about how to moderate toxic speech on social media and the impact of content moderation on online discourse. This paper proposes and validates a methodology for measuring the content-moderation-induced distortions…

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What is the boundary between a vigorous argument and a breakdown of relations? What drives a group of individuals across it? Taking Wikipedia as a test case, we use a hidden Markov model to approximate the computational structure and social…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-10-17 Simon DeDeo

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

As a major source for information on virtually any topic, Wikipedia serves an important role in public dissemination and consumption of knowledge. As a result, it presents tremendous potential for people to promulgate their own points of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2011-11-10 Sanmay Das , Allen Lavoie , Malik Magdon-Ismail

Automated large-scale analysis of public discussions around contested issues like abortion requires detecting and understanding the use of arguments. While Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown promise in language processing tasks, their…

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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

Social biases on Wikipedia, a widely-read global platform, could greatly influence public opinion. While prior research has examined man/woman gender bias in biography articles, possible influences of other demographic attributes limit…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-02-10 Anjalie Field , Chan Young Park , Kevin Z. Lin , Yulia Tsvetkov

Since the Internet is flooded with hate, it is one of the main tasks for NLP experts to master automated online content moderation. However, advancements in this field require improved access to publicly available accurate and non-synthetic…

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A major challenge for many analyses of Wikipedia dynamics -- e.g., imbalances in content quality, geographic differences in what content is popular, what types of articles attract more editor discussion -- is grouping the very diverse range…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Isaac Johnson , Martin Gerlach , Diego Sáez-Trumper

Success of planetary-scale online collaborative platforms such as Wikipedia is hinged on active and continued participation of its voluntary contributors. The phenomenal success of Wikipedia as a valued multilingual source of information is…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-09-22 Paramita Das , Bhanu Prakash Reddy Guda , Debajit Chakraborty , Soumya Sarkar , Animesh Mukherjee

Wikipedia is one of the most popular websites in the world, serving as a major source of information and learning resource for millions of users worldwide. While motivations for its usage vary, prior research suggests shallow information…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Neal Reeves , Wenjie Yin , Elena Simperl

Wikipedia has been turned into an immensely popular crowd-sourced encyclopedia for information dissemination on numerous versatile topics in the form of subscription free content. It allows anyone to contribute so that the articles remain…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-11-03 Paramita Das , Bhanu Prakash Reddy Guda , Sasi Bhusan Seelaboyina , Soumya Sarkar , Animesh Mukherjee

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

A widespread moderation strategy by online news platforms is to feature what the platform deems high quality comments, usually called editor picks or featured comments. In this paper, we compare online discussions of news articles in which…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Cedric Waterschoot , Ernst van den Hemel , Antal van den Bosch

Political polarization emerges from a complex interplay of beliefs about policies, figures, and issues. However, most computational analyses reduce discourse to coarse partisan labels, overlooking how these beliefs interact. This is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Özgür Togay , Javier Garcia-Bernardo , Florian Kunneman , Anastasia Giachanou

Navigating large-scale online discussions is difficult due to the rapid pace and large volume of user-generated content. Prior work in CSCW has shown that moderators often struggle to follow multiple simultaneous discussions, track evolving…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Yijun Liu , Frederick Choi , Eshwar Chandrasekharan

With over 60M articles, Wikipedia has become the largest platform for open and freely accessible knowledge. While it has more than 15B monthly visits, its content is believed to be inaccessible to many readers due to the lack of readability…

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