On 06/26/2017 04:43 PM, Mark J. Nelson wrote:
James Salsman jsalsman@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 https://dx.doi.org/10.2964/JSIK.21_06
This was found on the Scholia page for the link rot topic:
https://tools.wmflabs.org/scholia/topic/Q1193907
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