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AI tools are increasingly deployed in community contexts. However, datasets used to evaluate AI are typically created by developers and annotators outside a given community, which can yield misleading conclusions about AI performance. How…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-02-23 Tzu-Sheng Kuo , Aaron Halfaker , Zirui Cheng , Jiwoo Kim , Meng-Hsin Wu , Tongshuang Wu , Kenneth Holstein , Haiyi Zhu

Hyperlinks and other relations in Wikipedia are a extraordinary resource which is still not fully understood. In this paper we study the different types of links in Wikipedia, and contrast the use of the full graph with respect to just…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-03-16 Eneko Agirre , Ander Barrena , Aitor Soroa

A thermodynamic framework is presented to characterize the evolution of efficiency, order, and quality in social content production systems, and this framework is applied to the analysis of Wikipedia. Contributing editors are characterized…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2012-04-18 Huan-Kai Peng , Ying Zhang , Peter Pirolli , Tad Hogg

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…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Joshua Ashkinaze , Ruijia Guan , Laura Kurek , Eytan Adar , Ceren Budak , Eric Gilbert

This paper presents a novel analysis and visualization of English Wikipedia data. Our specific interest is the analysis of basic statistics, the identification of the semantic structure and age of the categories in this free online…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Todd Holloway , Miran Bozicevic , Katy Börner

An edit summary is a succinct comment written by a Wikipedia editor explaining the nature of, and reasons for, an edit to a Wikipedia page. Edit summaries are crucial for maintaining the encyclopedia: they are the first thing seen by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Marija Šakota , Isaac Johnson , Guosheng Feng , Robert West

We report on work in progress on extracting lexical simplifications (e.g., "collaborate" -> "work together"), focusing on utilizing edit histories in Simple English Wikipedia for this task. We consider two main approaches: (1) deriving…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2010-08-13 Mark Yatskar , Bo Pang , Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil , Lillian Lee

The Thanks feature on Wikipedia, also known as "Thanks", is a tool with which editors can quickly and easily send one other positive feedback. The aim of this project is to better understand this feature: its scope, the characteristics of a…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2019-03-11 Swati Goel , Ashton Anderson , Leila Zia

For many people, Wikipedia represents one of the primary sources of knowledge about foreign cultures. Yet, different Wikipedia language editions offer different descriptions of cultural practices. Unveiling diverging representations of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-07-14 Paul Laufer , Claudia Wagner , Fabian Flöck , Markus Strohmaier

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 online communities, recent studies have strongly improved our knowledge about the different types or profiles of contributors, from casual to very involved ones, through focused people. However they do so by using very complex…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Shubham Krishna , Romain Billot , Nicolas Jullien

We study text reuse related to Wikipedia at scale by compiling the first corpus of text reuse cases within Wikipedia as well as without (i.e., reuse of Wikipedia text in a sample of the Common Crawl). To discover reuse beyond verbatim copy…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-12-24 Milad Alshomary , Michael Völske , Tristan Licht , Henning Wachsmuth , Benno Stein , Matthias Hagen , Martin Potthast

In open collaborative projects like Wikipedia, interactions among users can produce tension and misunderstandings. Complex disputes require more sophisticated mechanisms of conflict resolution. In this paper, we examine the case of the…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2014-12-12 Maria Sefidari , Felipe Ortega

By linking to external websites, Wikipedia can act as a gateway to the Web. To date, however, little is known about the amount of traffic generated by Wikipedia's external links. We fill this gap in a detailed analysis of usage logs…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Tiziano Piccardi , Miriam Redi , Giovanni Colavizza , Robert West

Wikis can be considered as public domain knowledge sharing system. They provide opportunity for those who may not have the privilege to publish their thoughts through the traditional methods. They are one of the fastest growing systems of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Charles Robert , Ranmi Adigun

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

The Web and its main tools (Google, Wikipedia, Facebook, Twitter) deeply raise and renew fundamental questions, that everyone asks almost every day: Is this information or content true? Can I trust this author or source? These questions are…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-01-13 Gilles Sahut , André Tricot

The problem of business-IT alignment is of widespread economic concern. As one way of addressing the problem, this paper describes an online system that functions as a kind of Wiki -- one that supports the collaborative writing and running…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-03-04 Adrian Walker

The use of domain knowledge is generally found to improve query efficiency in content filtering applications. In particular, tangible benefits have been achieved when using knowledge-based approaches within more specialized fields, such as…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Pekka Malo , Pyry Siitari , Oskar Ahlgren , Jyrki Wallenius , Pekka Korhonen

Wikidata is a collaborative knowledge graph which provides machine-readable structured data for Wikimedia projects including Wikipedia. Managed by a community of volunteers, it has grown to become the most edited Wikimedia project. However,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Marisa Ripoll , Neal Reeves , Anelia Kurteva , Elena Simperl , Albert Meroño Peñuela , Klaus Diepold