Research:Quality dynamics of English Wikipedia
Duration: 2016-11 – 2016-12
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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
- ↑ 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)