Query for Architecture, Click Through Military: Comparing the Roles of Search and Navigation on Wikipedia
Authors | Dimitar Dimitrov Florian Lemmerich Fabian Flöck Markus Strohmaier |
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Publication date | 2018 |
DOI | 10.1145/3201064.3201092 |
Links | Original Preprint |
Query for Architecture, Click Through Military: Comparing the Roles of Search and Navigation on Wikipedia - scientific work related to Wikipedia quality published in 2018, written by Dimitar Dimitrov, Florian Lemmerich, Fabian Flöck and Markus Strohmaier.
Overview
As one of the richest sources of encyclopedic information on the Web, Wikipedia generates an enormous amount of traffic. In this paper, authors study large-scale article access data of the English Wikipedia in order to compare articles with respect to the two main paradigms of information seeking, i.e., search by formulating a query, and navigation by following hyperlinks. To this end, authors propose and employ two main metrics, namely (i) searchshare -- the relative amount of views an article received by search --, and (ii) resistance -- the ability of an article to relay traffic to other Wikipedia articles -- to characterize articles. Authors demonstrate how articles in distinct topical categories differ substantially in terms of these properties. For example, architecture-related articles are often accessed through search and are simultaneously a "dead end for traffic, whereas historical articles about military events are mainly navigated. Authors further link traffic differences to varying network, content, and editing activity features. Lastly, authors measure the impact of the article properties by modeling access behavior on articles with a gradient boosting approach. The results of this paper constitute a step towards understanding human information seeking behavior on the Web.
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Dimitrov, Dimitar; Lemmerich, Florian; Flöck, Fabian; Strohmaier, Markus. (2018). "[[Query for Architecture, Click Through Military: Comparing the Roles of Search and Navigation on Wikipedia]]". ACM Press. DOI: 10.1145/3201064.3201092.
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Dimitrov, Dimitar; Lemmerich, Florian; Flöck, Fabian; Strohmaier, Markus. (2018). "<a href="https://wikipediaquality.com/wiki/Query_for_Architecture,_Click_Through_Military:_Comparing_the_Roles_of_Search_and_Navigation_on_Wikipedia">Query for Architecture, Click Through Military: Comparing the Roles of Search and Navigation on Wikipedia</a>". ACM Press. DOI: 10.1145/3201064.3201092.
