A Quantitative Examination of the Impact of Featured Articles in Wikipedia

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A Quantitative Examination of the Impact of Featured Articles in Wikipedia
Authors
Antonio J. Reinoso
Jesús Maria González-Barahona
Rocío Muñoz-Mansilla
Israel Herraiz
Publication date
2011
ISBN
978-989842576-8
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A Quantitative Examination of the Impact of Featured Articles in Wikipedia - scientific work about Wikipedia quality published in 2011, written by Antonio J. Reinoso, Jesús Maria González-Barahona, Rocío Muñoz-Mansilla and Israel Herraiz.

Overview

This paper presents a quantitative examination of the impact of the presentation of featured articles as quality content in the main page of several Wikipedia editions. Moreover, the paper also presents the analysis performed to determine the number of visits received by the articles promoted to the featured status. Authors have analyzed the visits not only in the month when articles awarded the promotion or were included in the main page, but also in the previous and following ones. The main aim for this is to assess the attention attracted by the featured content and the different dynamics exhibited by each community of users in respect to the promotion process. The main results of this paper are twofold: it shows how to extract relevant information related to the use of Wikipedia, which is an emerging research topic, and it analyzes whether the featured articles mechanism achieve to attract more attention.

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Reinoso, Antonio J.; González-Barahona, Jesús Maria; Muñoz-Mansilla, Rocío; Herraiz, Israel. (2011). "[[A Quantitative Examination of the Impact of Featured Articles in Wikipedia]]". Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) Volume 6897 LNCS, 2011, pp. 214-225. ISBN: 978-989842576-8.

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Reinoso, Antonio J.; González-Barahona, Jesús Maria; Muñoz-Mansilla, Rocío; Herraiz, Israel. (2011). &quot;<a href="https://wikipediaquality.com/wiki/A_Quantitative_Examination_of_the_Impact_of_Featured_Articles_in_Wikipedia">A Quantitative Examination of the Impact of Featured Articles in Wikipedia</a>&quot;. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) Volume 6897 LNCS, 2011, pp. 214-225. ISBN: 978-989842576-8.