Quality of articles in Wikipedia

Deyi Li*, Haisu Zhang, Shuliang Wang, Juebo Wu

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Abstract

The recent research of wikipediais is firs briefly analyzed, especially on the statistics of quality of articles in Wikipedia. Then the automatic evaluating methods of article quality are discussed. The methods mainly include two kinds: the correlation-based analysis and cooperation modeling. Furthermore, we present the open problems of automatic quality evaluation and the possiblepromotions of collective intelligence.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1387-1391
Number of pages5
JournalWuhan Daxue Xuebao (Xinxi Kexue Ban)/Geomatics and Information Science of Wuhan University
Volume36
Issue number12
Publication statusPublished - Dec 2011
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Collective intelligence
  • Quality of article evaluation
  • Wiki
  • Wikipedia

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