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{{Infobox work
| title = Disinformation on the Web: Impact, Characteristics, and Detection of Wikipedia Hoaxes
| date = 2016
| authors = [[Srijan Kumar]]<br />[[Robert West]]<br />[[Jure Leskovec]]
| doi = 10.1145/2872427.2883085
| link = http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=2872427.2883085
}}
'''Disinformation on the Web: Impact, Characteristics, and Detection of Wikipedia Hoaxes''' - scientific work related to [[Wikipedia quality]] published in 2016, written by [[Srijan Kumar]], [[Robert West]] and [[Jure Leskovec]].

== Overview ==
Wikipedia is a major source of information for many people. However, false information on [[Wikipedia]] raises concerns about its [[credibility]]. One way in which false information may be presented on Wikipedia is in the form of hoax articles, i.e., articles containing fabricated facts about nonexistent entities or events. In this paper authors study false information on Wikipedia by focusing on the hoax articles that have been created throughout its history. Authors make several contributions. First, authors assess the real-world impact of hoax articles by measuring how long they survive before being debunked, how many pageviews they receive, and how heavily they are referred to by documents on the Web. Authors find that, while most hoaxes are detected quickly and have little impact on Wikipedia, a small number of hoaxes survive long and are well cited across the Web. Second, authors characterize the nature of successful hoaxes by comparing them to legitimate articles and to failed hoaxes that were discovered shortly after being created. Authors find characteristic differences in terms of article structure and content, embeddedness into the rest of Wikipedia, and [[features]] of the editor who created the hoax. Third, authors successfully apply findings to address a series of classification tasks, most notably to determine whether a given article is a hoax. And finally, authors describe and evaluate a task involving humans distinguishing hoaxes from non-hoaxes. Authors find that humans are not particularly good at the task and that automated classifier outperforms them by a big margin.

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Kumar, Srijan; West, Robert; Leskovec, Jure. (2016). "[[Disinformation on the Web: Impact, Characteristics, and Detection of Wikipedia Hoaxes]]". International World Wide Web Conferences Steering Committee. DOI: 10.1145/2872427.2883085. 
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Kumar, Srijan; West, Robert; Leskovec, Jure. (2016). &amp;quot;<a href="https://wikipediaquality.com/wiki/Disinformation_on_the_Web:_Impact,_Characteristics,_and_Detection_of_Wikipedia_Hoaxes">Disinformation on the Web: Impact, Characteristics, and Detection of Wikipedia Hoaxes</a>&amp;quot;. International World Wide Web Conferences Steering Committee. DOI: 10.1145/2872427.2883085. 
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