On 06/26/2017 04:43 PM, Mark J. Nelson wrote:
James Salsman <jsalsman(a)gmail.com> writes:
Is anyone studying the rate at which external
links become unavailable
on Wikipedia projects?
There've been a few studies over the years, but none of the ones I know
of are recent. One from 2011 that may nonetheless be interesting is:
P. Tzekou, S. Stamou, N. Kirtsis, N. Zotos. Quality assessment of
Wikipedia external links. In Proceedings of Web Information Systems and
Technologies (WEBIST) 2011.
http://www.dblab.upatras.gr/download/nlp/NLP-Group-Pubs/11-WEBIST_Wikipedia…
-Mark
There is a Japanese study from the same year:
Characteristics of external links and dead links in Japanese Wikipedia