Research:Quality dynamics of English Wikipedia

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How has Wikipedia changed in quality over time, and how have these quality dynamics changed by topic? In this study, we'll use the Monthly Wikipedia article quality predictions dataset[1] and measures of importance to explore the quality dynamics of Wikipedia.


Methods edit

Measures of quality edit

Wikipedia 1.0 assessments (WP10)
Predicted WP10

Measures of importance edit

Explicit
  • WikiProject importance assessments
Implicit
  • Page views
  • Link graph
    • Within-project

Categorizing content edit

Main en:Wikipedia:WikiProject_Council/Directory

"Women's topics"

"Academic topics"

"Pop culture"

Results edit

Overall edit

Breakdowns edit

Culture and the arts
Geographical
History and society
Science, technology and engineering
Women's topics
Academic topics
Pop culture

Discussion edit

References edit

  1. Halfaker, Aaron (2016): Monthly Wikipedia article quality predictions. figshare. https://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.3859800.v3 Retrieved: 17 03, Nov 19, 2016 (GMT)