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Current citation practices observed in articles are very noisy, confusing, and not standardised, making identifying the cited works problematic for hu-mans and any reference extraction software. In this work, we want to investigate such…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2022-07-22 Erika Alves dos Santos , Silvio Peroni , Marcos Luiz Mucheroni

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

Wikipedia is nowadays a widely used encyclopedia, and one of the most visible sites on the Internet. Its strong principle of collaborative work and free editing sometimes generates disputes due to disagreements between users. In this…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2008-12-18 Bernard Jacquemin , Aurélien Lauf , Céline Poudat , Martine Hurault-Plantet , Nicolas Auray

Using 16,068 articles in Wikipedia's Medicine Wikiproject, we study the relationship between collaboration and quality. We assess whether certain collaborative patterns are associated with information quality in terms of self-evaluated…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2012-04-17 Gerald C. Kane , Sam Ransbotham

The quality and quantity of articles in each Wikipedia language varies greatly. Translating from another Wikipedia is a natural way to add more content, but the translation process is not properly supported in the software used by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-06-08 Niklas Laxström , Pau Giner , Santhosh Thottingal

Nowadays, thanks to Web 2.0 technologies, people have the possibility to generate and spread contents on different social media in a very easy way. In this context, the evaluation of the quality of the information that is available online…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-12-10 Elias Bassani , Marco Viviani

One of the most impressive human endeavors of the past two decades is the collection and categorization of human knowledge in the free and accessible format that is Wikipedia. In this work we ask what makes a term worthy of entering this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-18 Yonatan Bilu , Shai Gretz , Edo Cohen , Noam Slonim

This paper proposes to tackle open- domain question answering using Wikipedia as the unique knowledge source: the answer to any factoid question is a text span in a Wikipedia article. This task of machine reading at scale combines the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-05-01 Danqi Chen , Adam Fisch , Jason Weston , Antoine Bordes

Writing Wikipedia with a neutral point of view is one of the five pillars of Wikipedia. Although the topic is core to Wikipedia, it is relatively understudied considering hundreds of research studies are published annually about the…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Isaac Johnson , Yu-Ming Liou , Jacob Rogers , Aaron Shaw , Leila Zia

Identifying which Wikipedia articles are related to science fiction, fantasy, or their hybrids is challenging because genre boundaries are porous and frequently overlap. Wikipedia nonetheless offers machine-readable structure beyond text,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Włodzimierz Lewoniewski , Milena Stróżyna , Izabela Czumałowska , Elżbieta Lewańska

Contributing to the writing of history has never been as easy as it is today thanks to Wikipedia, a community-created encyclopedia that aims to document the world's knowledge from a neutral point of view. Though everyone can participate it…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-03-04 Claudia Wagner , Eduardo Graells-Garrido , David Garcia , Filippo Menczer

Information diffusion on social media platforms is often assumed to occur primarily through explicit social connections, such as follower or friend ties. However, information frequently propagates beyond these observable ties -- through…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Yuto Tamura , Sho Tsugawa , Kohei Watabe

This study presents a comparative analysis of 55 Wikipedia language editions employing a citation index alongside a synthetic quality measure. Specifically, we identified the most significant Wikipedia articles within distinct topical…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Włodzimierz Lewoniewski , Krzysztof Węcel , Witold Abramowicz

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

Wikipedia is a useful source of knowledge that has many applications in language processing and knowledge representation. The Wikipedia category graph can be compared with the class hierarchy in an ontology; it has some characteristics in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2007-11-20 James A. Thom , Jovan Pehcevski , Anne-Marie Vercoustre

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

Nowadays, information describing navigation behaviour of internet users are used in several fields, e-commerce, economy, sociology and data science. Such information can be extracted from different knowledge bases, including…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-08-18 Célestin Coquidé , Włodzimierz Lewoniewski

Interactions among notable individuals -- whether examined individually, in groups, or as networks -- often convey significant messages across cultural, economic, political, scientific, and historical perspectives. By analyzing the times…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Zhongyang Liu , Ying Zhang , Xiangyi Xiao , Wenting Liu , Yuanting Zha , Haipeng Zhang

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

Search engines increasingly display LLM-generated answers shown above organic links, shifting search from link lists to answer-first summaries. Publishers contend these summaries substitute for source pages and cannibalize traffic, while…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Mehrzad Khosravi , Hema Yoganarasimhan