Automatically Assessing the Quality of Wikipedia Articles
Authors | Joshua Evan Blumenstock |
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Publication date | 2008 |
Links | Original |
Automatically Assessing the Quality of Wikipedia Articles - scientific work about Wikipedia quality published in 2008, written by Joshua Evan Blumenstock.
Overview
Since its inception in 2001, Wikipedia has fast become one of the Internet's most dominant sources of information. Dubbed "the free encyclopedia", Wikipedia contains millions of articles that are written, edited, and maintained by volunteers. Due in part to the open, collaborative process by which content is generated, many have questioned the reliability of these articles. The high variance in quality between articles is a potential source of confusion that likely leaves many visitors unable to distinguish between good articles and bad. In this work, author described how a very simple metric – word count – can be used to as a proxy for article quality, and discuss the implications of this result for Wikipedia in particular, and quality assessment in general.
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Wikipedia Quality
Blumenstock, Joshua Evan. (2008). "[[Automatically Assessing the Quality of Wikipedia Articles]]". UC Berkeley: School of Information, 2008.
English Wikipedia
{{cite journal |last1=Blumenstock |first1=Joshua Evan |title=Automatically Assessing the Quality of Wikipedia Articles |date=2008 |url=https://wikipediaquality.com/wiki/Automatically_Assessing_the_Quality_of Wikipedia_Articles |journal=UC Berkeley: School of Information}}
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Blumenstock, Joshua Evan. (2008). "<a href="https://wikipediaquality.com/wiki/Automatically_Assessing_the_Quality_of Wikipedia_Articles">Automatically Assessing the Quality of Wikipedia Articles</a>". UC Berkeley: School of Information.
