The Category Structure in Wikipedia: to Analyze and Know How It Grows

The Category Structure in Wikipedia: to Analyze and Know How It Grows - scientific work related to Wikipedia quality published in 2013, written by Qishun Wang, Xiaohua Wang, Zhiqun Chen and Rongbo Wang.

Overview

Wikipedia is a famous encyclopedia and is applied to a lot of famous fields for many years, such as natural language processing. The category structure is used and analyzed in this paper. Authors take the important topological properties into account, such as the connectivity distribution. What’s the most important of all is to analyze the growth of the structure from 2004 to 2012 in detail. In order to tell about the growth, the basic properties and the small-worldness is brought in. Some different edge attachment models based on the properties of nodes are tested in order to study how the properties of nodes influence the creation of edges. Authors are very interested in the phenomenon that the data in 2011 and 2012 is so strange and study the reason closely. Authors results offer useful insights for the structure and the growth of the category structure.