Understanding the ‘quality motion’ of wikipedia articles through semantic convergence analysis

Huijing Deng; Bernadetta Tarigan; Mihai Grigore; Juliana Sutanto

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-20895-4_7

Understanding the ‘quality motion’ of wikipedia articles through semantic convergence analysis

Huijing Deng, Bernadetta Tarigan, Mihai Grigore, Juliana Sutanto

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Abstract

To better inform the users of the articles quality, Wikipedia assigns quality labels to the articles. While most of the existing studies of the Wikipedia phenomenon took the quality ratings provided by Wikipedia as the outcome variable of their research, a few yet growing number of studies ask expert raters to rate the quality of selected Wikipedia articles because of their doubts in Wikipedia’s ratings. This study aims to check if Wikipedia’s ratings really reflect its stated criteria. According to Wikipedia criteria, having abundant and stable content is the key to article’s quality promotion; we therefore examine the content change in terms of quantity change and content stability by showing the semantic convergence. We found out that the quantity of content change is significant in the promoted articles, which complies with Wikipedia’s stated criteria.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	HCI in Business - 2nd International Conference, HCIB 2015 Held as Part of HCI International 2015, Proceedings
Editors	Fiona Fui-Hoon Nah, Chuan-Hoo Tan
Publisher	Springer
Pages	64-75
Number of pages	12
ISBN (Print)	9783319208947
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20895-4_7
Publication status	Published - 2015
Externally published	Yes
Event	International Conference on HCI in Business 2015 - Los Angeles, United States of America Duration: 2 Aug 2015 → 7 Aug 2015 Conference number: 2nd https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-20895-4 (Proceedings)

Publication series

Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Publisher	Springer
Volume	9191
ISSN (Print)	0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)	1611-3349

Conference

Conference	International Conference on HCI in Business 2015
Abbreviated title	HCIB 2015
Country/Territory	United States of America
City	Los Angeles
Period	2/08/15 → 7/08/15
Internet address	https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-20895-4 (Proceedings)

Keywords

Article quality
Content change
Quality motion
Semantic convergence
Wikipedia

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Deng, H., Tarigan, B., Grigore, M., & Sutanto, J. (2015). Understanding the ‘quality motion’ of wikipedia articles through semantic convergence analysis. In F. F.-H. Nah, & C.-H. Tan (Eds.), HCI in Business - 2nd International Conference, HCIB 2015 Held as Part of HCI International 2015, Proceedings (pp. 64-75). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Vol. 9191). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20895-4_7

Deng, Huijing ; Tarigan, Bernadetta ; Grigore, Mihai et al. / Understanding the ‘quality motion’ of wikipedia articles through semantic convergence analysis. HCI in Business - 2nd International Conference, HCIB 2015 Held as Part of HCI International 2015, Proceedings. editor / Fiona Fui-Hoon Nah ; Chuan-Hoo Tan. Springer, 2015. pp. 64-75 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science).

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Deng, H, Tarigan, B, Grigore, M & Sutanto, J 2015, Understanding the ‘quality motion’ of wikipedia articles through semantic convergence analysis. in FF-H Nah & C-H Tan (eds), HCI in Business - 2nd International Conference, HCIB 2015 Held as Part of HCI International 2015, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 9191, Springer, pp. 64-75, International Conference on HCI in Business 2015, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, 2/08/15. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20895-4_7

Understanding the ‘quality motion’ of wikipedia articles through semantic convergence analysis. / Deng, Huijing; Tarigan, Bernadetta; Grigore, Mihai et al.
HCI in Business - 2nd International Conference, HCIB 2015 Held as Part of HCI International 2015, Proceedings. ed. / Fiona Fui-Hoon Nah; Chuan-Hoo Tan. Springer, 2015. p. 64-75 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Vol. 9191).

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Deng H, Tarigan B, Grigore M, Sutanto J. Understanding the ‘quality motion’ of wikipedia articles through semantic convergence analysis. In Nah FFH, Tan CH, editors, HCI in Business - 2nd International Conference, HCIB 2015 Held as Part of HCI International 2015, Proceedings. Springer. 2015. p. 64-75. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science). doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-20895-4_7

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