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Ross Mounce Jan 9, 2025

Reading:

Navigating Knowledge: Patterns and
Insights from Wikipedia Consumption

by Tiziano Piccardi & Robert West

"Google returns Wikipedia articles on the first page of results for 67%-85% of the queries, depending on the type of searched content..."

#WikiResearch

Navigating Knowledge: Patterns and Insights from Wikipedia Consumption

The Web has drastically simplified our access to knowledge and learning, and fact-checking online resources has become a part of our daily routine. Studying online knowledge consumption is thus critical for understanding human behavior and informing the design of future platforms. In this Chapter, we approach this subject by describing the navigation patterns of the readers of Wikipedia, the world's largest platform for open knowledge. We provide a comprehensive overview of what is known about the three steps that characterize navigation on Wikipedia: (1) how readers reach the platform, (2) how readers navigate the platform, and (3) how readers leave the platform. Finally, we discuss open problems and opportunities for future research in this field.

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OpenSexism Jun 17, 2024

"We usually assign credibility automatically to speakers, and in this unreflective process, identity prejudice can unjustly lead us to grant less credibility to some speakers, typically from marginalized groups. Their contribution is dismissed, and they are harmed in their dignity and their capacity to participate in knowledge production and transmission." #wikipedia #wikidata #wikiresearch

Kaveinthran (no longer here)Feb 5, 2024

@wikiresearch I am looking for thesis collections, handbooks, meta analysis or any kind of scientific/literature reviews that extensively catalogs broadly researches done on wikipedia, and explain its studies, consequences and developments, do we have any of that rigor publications? #science #research #wikiResearch #wikipedia #handbooks #openEducation #openAccess #OpenResearch #OpenKnowledge #SystematicReview #MetaAnalysis #LiteratureReview#Thesis #Dissertation

Carla Teixeira Lopes Oct 3, 2023

Happy to share that our article "Automatic Quality Assessment of Wikipedia Articles - A Systematic Literature Review" has just been accepted at ACM Computing Surveys. Available here: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3625286. @wikiresearch #wikiresearch #wikipedia

Automatic Quality Assessment of Wikipedia Articles - A Systematic Literature Review | ACM Computing Surveys

Wikipedia is the world’s largest online encyclopedia, but maintaining article quality through collaboration is challenging. Wikipedia designed a quality scale, but with such a manual assessment process, many articles remain unassessed. We review existing ...

ACM Computing Surveys

Ross Mounce Mar 15, 2023

It took literally hours, but I have now successfully unpacked

commonswiki-20221120-pages-meta-current.xml.bz2 (15.9GB)

into

commonswiki-20221120-pages-meta-current.xml (168.7GB)

from https://dumps.wikimedia.org/

#WikiResearch #Tinkering

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Boud Nov 7, 2022

@elplatt

Very nice doctoral thesis on large-scale #ParticipatoryDecisionMaking [1] :).

The overall model and strategy of analysing real-world #Wikipedia data (this is #WikiResearch) and doing a controlled experiment look good in my quick browse, and the results appear to be valid.

You might want to study real-world usage of #Decidim [2] and #Consul [3] (other packages: [4]).

[1] https://elplatt.com/archive/2022/08/09/dissertation-platt.pdf

[2] https://github.com/decidim/decidim

[3] https://consulproject.org/en

[4] https://democracy.foundation/similar-projects