Categorization of Wikipedia Articles and Formation of Collective Knowledge via the Massive History of an Open-Editing Encyclopedia
Authors | Jinhyuk Yun Sang Hoon Lee Hawoong Jeong |
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Publication date | 2016 |
DOI | 10.3938/PhiT.25.006 |
Links | Original |
Categorization of Wikipedia Articles and Formation of Collective Knowledge via the Massive History of an Open-Editing Encyclopedia - scientific work related to Wikipedia quality published in 2016, written by Jinhyuk Yun, Sang Hoon Lee and Hawoong Jeong.
Overview
Wikipedia, which is a public Internet encyclopedia with a vast amount of content, is written by voluntary editors with diverse backgrounds in a collective fashion; anyone can access and edit most articles. This open-editing nature may give us the impression that Wikipedia is an unstable and unreliable source, but many studies indicate that Wikipedia is even more accurate and consistent than conventional encyclopedias. Researchers have attempted to understand such unexpected credibility, but they have usually used the number of edits as the unit of time, without considering real time. In this work, authors investigate the formation of such collective intelligence through a systematic analysis using the entire record of 34,534,110 English Wikipedia articles between 2001 and 2014. From this enormous amount of data, authors reveal the patterns on both timewise and lengthwise editing scales, which suggests that it is crucial to consider the real-time dynamics. By considering real time, authors classify the growth patterns into four different types that are not observed when utilizing only the number of edits as the unit of time. To explain these results, authors introduce a mechanistic model that harnesses the dynamics of article editing dynamics based on both editor-editor and editor-article dynamics. The model successfully generates the crucial properties of real Wikipedia articles such as the distinct types of articles for the editing patterns represented by the interrelationship between the numbers of edits and editors and the article’s length. In addition, model predicts that articles which are infrequently referred to tend to grow faster than ones which are frequently referred to and that counterintuitively articles inducing a large motivation to edit actually shrink the number of participants. Authors suggest that this decline of participanting editors eventually causes inequality among the editors, which will be exacerbated with time.
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Yun, Jinhyuk; Lee, Sang Hoon; Jeong, Hawoong. (2016). "[[Categorization of Wikipedia Articles and Formation of Collective Knowledge via the Massive History of an Open-Editing Encyclopedia]]".DOI: 10.3938/PhiT.25.006.
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Yun, Jinhyuk; Lee, Sang Hoon; Jeong, Hawoong. (2016). "<a href="https://wikipediaquality.com/wiki/Categorization_of_Wikipedia_Articles_and_Formation_of_Collective_Knowledge_via_the_Massive_History_of_an_Open-Editing_Encyclopedia">Categorization of Wikipedia Articles and Formation of Collective Knowledge via the Massive History of an Open-Editing Encyclopedia</a>".DOI: 10.3938/PhiT.25.006.
