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You Are Where You Edit: Locating Wikipedia Contributors Through Edit Histories ∗
"... Whether knowingly or otherwise, Wikipedia contributors reveal their interests and expertise through their contribution patterns. An analysis of Wikipedia edit histories shows that it is often possible to associate contributors with relatively small geographic regions, usually corresponding to where ..."
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Whether knowingly or otherwise, Wikipedia contributors reveal their interests and expertise through their contribution patterns. An analysis of Wikipedia edit histories shows that it is often possible to associate contributors with relatively small geographic regions, usually corresponding to where
Wikify!: linking documents to encyclopedic knowledge
- In CIKM ’07: Proceedings of the sixteenth ACM conference on Conference on information and knowledge management
, 2007
"... This paper introduces the use of Wikipedia as a resource for automatic keyword extraction and word sense disambiguation, and shows how this online encyclopedia can be used to achieve state-of-the-art results on both these tasks. The paper also shows how the two methods can be combined into a system ..."
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are reliable and hardly distinguishable from manual annotations. providing the users a quick way of accessing additional information. Wikipedia contributors perform these annotations by hand following a Wikipedia“manual of style,”which gives guidelines concerning the selection of important concepts in a text
Harnessing the wisdom of crowds in wikipedia: quality through coordination
- In Proceedings of the ACM 2008 conference on Computer supported cooperative work
, 2008
"... Wikipedia’s success is often attributed to involving large numbers of contributors who improve the accuracy, completeness and clarity of articles while reducing bias. However, because of the high coordination needed to collaboratively write an article, increasing the number of contributors is costly ..."
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Wikipedia’s success is often attributed to involving large numbers of contributors who improve the accuracy, completeness and clarity of articles while reducing bias. However, because of the high coordination needed to collaboratively write an article, increasing the number of contributors
Trust based evaluation of wikipedia’s contributors
- In ESAW
, 2009
"... Abstract. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia on which anybody can change its content. Some users, self-proclaimed "patrollers", regularly check recent changes in order to delete or correct those which are ruining articles integrity. The huge quantity of updates leads some articles to remain pol ..."
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polluted a certain time before being corrected. In this work, we show how a multiagent trust model can help patrollers in their task of controlling the Wikipedia. To direct the patrollers verification towards suspicious contributors, our work relies on a formalisation of Castelfranchi & Falcone
Infobox Suggestion for Wikipedia Entities
"... Given the sheer amount of work and expertise required in authoring Wikipedia articles, automatic tools that help Wikipedia contributors in generating and improving content are valuable. This paper presents our initial step towards building a full-fledged author assistant, particularly for suggesting ..."
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Given the sheer amount of work and expertise required in authoring Wikipedia articles, automatic tools that help Wikipedia contributors in generating and improving content are valuable. This paper presents our initial step towards building a full-fledged author assistant, particularly
Gender differences in wikipedia editing,”
- in Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration, ser. WikiSym ’11.
, 2011
"... ABSTRACT As Wikipedia has become an indispensable source of online information, concerns about who writes, edits, and maintains it have come to the forefront. In particular, the 2010 UNU-MERIT survey found evidence of a significant gender skew: fewer than 13% of Wikipedia contributors are women. Ho ..."
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ABSTRACT As Wikipedia has become an indispensable source of online information, concerns about who writes, edits, and maintains it have come to the forefront. In particular, the 2010 UNU-MERIT survey found evidence of a significant gender skew: fewer than 13% of Wikipedia contributors are women
Building a signed network from interactions in Wikipedia
- In DBSocial
, 2011
"... We present in this paper results on inferring a signed network (a “web of trust”) from interactions on user-generated content in Wikipedia. From a collection of articles in the politics domain and their revision history, we investigate mechanisms by which relationships between Wikipedia contributors ..."
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contributors- in the form of signed directed links- can be inferred based their interactions. Our study sheds light into principles underlying a signed network that is captured by social interaction. We look into whether this network over Wikipedia contributors represents indeed a plausible configuration
The Authority of Wikipedia
"... ABSTRACT: Philosophers of argumentation and of testimony suggest that we can rely on what someone says because of its epistemic merits. If so, then we should never credit Wikipedia, since we cannot assess what its anonymous contributors know. I propose instead that Wikipedia can have pragmatic merit ..."
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ABSTRACT: Philosophers of argumentation and of testimony suggest that we can rely on what someone says because of its epistemic merits. If so, then we should never credit Wikipedia, since we cannot assess what its anonymous contributors know. I propose instead that Wikipedia can have pragmatic
Is Wikipedia Biased?
, 2011
"... Waldfogel and many seminar participants for their comments. We are responsible for all remaining errors. As the largest wiki ever and one of the most popular websites in the world, Wikipedia accommodates a skyrocketing number of contributors and readers. At the end of 2011, after approximately a dec ..."
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Waldfogel and many seminar participants for their comments. We are responsible for all remaining errors. As the largest wiki ever and one of the most popular websites in the world, Wikipedia accommodates a skyrocketing number of contributors and readers. At the end of 2011, after approximately a
Analyzing the Creative Editing Behavior of Wikipedia Editors Through Dynamic Social Network Analysis
"... Elsevier use only: Received date here; revised date here; accepted date here This paper analyzes editing patterns of Wikipedia contributors using dynamic social network analysis. We have developed a tool that converts the edit flow among contributors into a temporal social network. We are using this ..."
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Elsevier use only: Received date here; revised date here; accepted date here This paper analyzes editing patterns of Wikipedia contributors using dynamic social network analysis. We have developed a tool that converts the edit flow among contributors into a temporal social network. We are using
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