Research:Quality dynamics of English Wikipedia

Contact

Aaron Halfaker

Wikimedia Foundation

Duration:  2016-11 – 2016-12

 Wikimedia hosted

Wikimedia Research

  Open access
via meta.wikimedia.org

  Open data
via figshare.com

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Research:Projects

This page documents a completed research project.

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 and measures of importance to explore the quality dynamics of Wikipedia.

Methods

Measures of quality

Wikipedia 1.0 assessments (WP10)

Predicted WP10

Measures of importance

Explicit

• WikiProject importance assessments

Implicit

• Page views
• Link graph
  • Within-project

Categorizing content

Main en:Wikipedia:WikiProject_Council/Directory

"Women's topics"

"Academic topics"

"Pop culture"

Results

Breakdowns

Culture and the arts

Geographical

History and society

Science, technology and engineering

Women's topics

Academic topics

Pop culture