In this paper, I demo a method for exploring the content coverage within
certain cross-sections of Wikipedia.
The measure isn't perfect, but it's pretty useful for looking at trends and
comparing to the wiki as a whole.
On Sat, Mar 24, 2018 at 12:19 PM, James Salsman <jsalsman(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Amy Bruckman wrote:
I was just re-reading Halavais & Lackaff’s
2008 paper on topic coverage
in the English Wikipedia.
Has anyone redone or extended that analysis more
recently?
I've been keeping track of the length articles on
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Short_popular_vital_articles
every six months for the past six years. It's great news in that
improvements as measured by byte count and controlled for maintenance
templates has been growing at a constant rate, basically four bytes
per day. I've never published anything on it and don't plan to, hoping
that someone who can use the academic publication credit will some
day. Plotting ORES scores over time is easy now, and should make it
sufficiently interesting to journal editors.
My favorite article on the topic is
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/asi.23687
It has a lot of citing articles:
https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&um=1&ie=UTF-8&
lr&cites=13904159020044435588
Also, has anyone mapped comparative topic
coverage for different
languages?
Yes, e.g.
https://fenix.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/downloadFile/395144380424/
popculture-paper.pdf
Best regards,
Jim
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