Do Wikipedians Follow Domain Experts?: a Domain-Specific Study on Wikipedia Knowledge Building
Authors | Yi Zhang Aixin Sun Anwitaman Datta Kuiyu Chang Ee-Peng Lim |
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Publication date | 2010 |
DOI | 10.1145/1816123.1816141 |
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Do Wikipedians Follow Domain Experts?: a Domain-Specific Study on Wikipedia Knowledge Building - scientific work related to Wikipedia quality published in 2010, written by Yi Zhang, Aixin Sun, Anwitaman Datta, Kuiyu Chang and Ee-Peng Lim.
Overview
Wikipedia is one of the most successful online knowledge bases, attracting millions of visits daily. Not surprisingly, its huge success has in turn led to immense research interest for a better understanding of the collaborative knowledge building process. In this paper, authors performed a (terrorism) domain-specific case study, comparing and contrasting the knowledge evolution in Wikipedia with a knowledge base created by domain experts. Specifically, authors used the Terrorism Knowledge Base (TKB) developed by experts at MIPT. Authors identified 409 Wikipedia articles matching TKB records, and went ahead to study them from three aspects: creation, revision, and link evolution. Authors found that the knowledge building in Wikipedia had largely been independent, and did not follow TKB - despite the open and online availability of the latter, as well as awareness of at least some of the Wikipedia contributors about the TKB source. In an attempt to identify possible reasons, authors conducted a detailed analysis of contribution behavior demonstrated by Wikipedians. It was found that most Wikipedians contribute to a relatively small set of articles each. Their contribution was biased towards one or very few article(s). At the same time, each article's contributions are often championed by very few active contributors including the article's creator. Authors finally arrive at a conjecture that the contributions in Wikipedia are more to cover knowledge at the article level rather than at the domain level.
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Zhang, Yi; Sun, Aixin; Datta, Anwitaman; Chang, Kuiyu; Lim, Ee-Peng. (2010). "[[Do Wikipedians Follow Domain Experts?: a Domain-Specific Study on Wikipedia Knowledge Building]]".DOI: 10.1145/1816123.1816141.
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Zhang, Yi; Sun, Aixin; Datta, Anwitaman; Chang, Kuiyu; Lim, Ee-Peng. (2010). "<a href="https://wikipediaquality.com/wiki/Do_Wikipedians_Follow_Domain_Experts?:_a_Domain-Specific_Study_on_Wikipedia_Knowledge_Building">Do Wikipedians Follow Domain Experts?: a Domain-Specific Study on Wikipedia Knowledge Building</a>".DOI: 10.1145/1816123.1816141.
