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Comparing featured article groups and revision patterns correlations in Wikipedia

  • Giacomo Poderi
  • University of Trento
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Abstract

Collaboratively written by thousands of people, Wikipedia produces entries which are consistent with criteria agreed by Wikipedians and of high quality. This article focuses on Wikipedia’s Featured Articles and shows that not every contribution can be considered as being of equal quality. Two groups of articles are analysed by focusing on the edits distribution and the main editors’ contribution. The research shows how these aspects of the revision patterns can change dependent upon the category to which the articles belong.

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Output type

Research Output:
Journal Article or Conference Article in Journal
Journal article
Peer-review

Original language

English

Journal (Volume, Issue Number)

First Monday (Volume 14, Issue 5)

Publication milestones

  • Published - 01/04/2009

Publication status

Published - 01/04/2009

ISSN

1396-0466

Publication IDs

  • Scopus: 69949141161

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