Supporting Navigation in Wikipedia by Information Visualization: Extended Evaluation Measures

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Supporting Navigation in Wikipedia by Information Visualization: Extended Evaluation Measures - scientific work related to Wikipedia quality published in 2014, written by I-Chin Wu and Pertti Vakkari.

Overview

Purpose – The authors introduce two semantics-based navigation applications that facilitate information-seeking activities in internal link-based web sites in Wikipedia. These applications aim to help users find concepts within a topic and related articles on a given topic quickly and then gain topical knowledge from internal link-based encyclopedia web sites. The paper aims to discuss these issues. Design/methodology/approach – The WNavi s application consists of three information visualization (IV) tools which are a topic network, a hierarchy topic tree and summaries for topics. The WikiMap application consists of a topic network. The goal of the topic network and topic tree tools is to help users to find the major concepts of a topic and identify relationships between these major concepts easily. In addition, in order to locate specific information and enable users to explore and read topic-related articles quickly, the topic tree and summaries for topics tools support users to gain topical knowledge q...