The Self-focus category: motivation reflected on topical coverage in Wikipedia
Authors | Marc Miquel Ribé |
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Publication date | 2011 |
Links | Original |
The Self-focus category: motivation reflected on topical coverage in Wikipedia - scientific work related to Wikipedia quality published in 2011, written by Marc Miquel Ribé.
Overview
"Wikipedia is a free web-based, collaborative, multilingual encyclopedia project supported by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation" this is the way the definition of Wikipedia in the article of the English languageedition starts. This means it can be modified at any time, by anyone and at any place. These bases and their participation success make of Wikipedia an excellent social object of study which, at the same time, for being a technological construct, can be approached by techniques of natural language processing, information retrieval or data mining. However, in the current research there is a clear lack of software which can make an integral approach. Taking this into account, authors make an in depth characterization of Wikipedia with the end goal of understanding which elements and structures compound its data and how they can be obtained with an analytical tool. Authors start with the existing API called wikAPIdia, which authors developed until include new functionalities and have it ready to use in multiple scenarios and problematics of social sciences. Looking for a practical caseto test it, authors review the current state of art in motivation ofeditors and the topical coverage in the repository. This allows us to consider the aim of understanding Wikipedia from the perspective of having a differen tcultural configuration for each language. Phrasing it as a question: ”is there a national or selfrepresentative motivation which is reflected in the content and thus disposes them differenciately? ”Autoreferentiality is the concept authors present in order to analyse this hypothetical higher interest in localcontent. An identification and recollection is made on articles from heterogenous topics which can refer tothe local history, sport teams or pop culture, but still maintain a semantic relation to the context of editors. Later, authors proposed a multidimensional analysis of them on features which can be significant indicators, toreach common conclusions and evaluate the language editions through an index of Autoreferentiality. Last, authors point out which is the impact of this content and the risk ofnot considering its existance in the design ofapplications based on user generated content.
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Ribé, Marc Miquel. (2011). "[[The Self-focus category: motivation reflected on topical coverage in Wikipedia]]". Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya.
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{{cite journal |last1=Ribé |first1=Marc Miquel |title=The Self-focus category: motivation reflected on topical coverage in Wikipedia |date=2011 |url=https://wikipediaquality.com/wiki/The_Self-focus_category:_motivation_reflected_on_topical_coverage_in_Wikipedia |journal=Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya}}
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Ribé, Marc Miquel. (2011). "<a href="https://wikipediaquality.com/wiki/The_Self-focus_category:_motivation_reflected_on_topical_coverage_in_Wikipedia">The Self-focus category: motivation reflected on topical coverage in Wikipedia</a>". Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya.
