Languages and Wikipedia: Cultural Evolution Increases Structure

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Languages and Wikipedia: Cultural Evolution Increases Structure - scientific work related to Wikipedia quality published in 2010, written by Julia Kasmire and Alfredas Chmieliauskas.

Overview

Natural languages and Wikipedia may both be evolving through the Iterated Learning Model, a cultural evolution mechanism that relies on iterated learning, a transmission bottleneck, and a structured meaning space, but does not require a competitive advantage for individual speakers or Wikipedia articles exhibiting more structure than others. This paper examines evidence that the evolution of structure on Wikipedia meets the same criteria as have been established for the ILM in the domain of language, and provides indications that Wikipedia is actually evolving through this mechanism. As a more readily studied example of cultural evolution, Wikipedia may provide answers to the evolution of structure that languages cannot address.

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