Analysis of Community Structure in Wikipedia

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Analysis of Community Structure in Wikipedia - scientific work related to Wikipedia quality published in 2009, written by Dmitry Lizorkin, Olena Medelyan and Maria P. Grineva.

Overview

Authors present the results of a community detection analysis of the Wikipedia graph. Distinct communities in Wikipedia contain semantically closely related articles. The central topic of a community can be identified using PageRank. Extracted communities can be organized hierarchically similar to manually created Wikipedia category structure.