Measuring Wikipedia
(2005) Measuring Wikipedia. In Proceedings International Conference of the International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics : 10th, Stockholm (Sweden).
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Abstract
Wikipedia, an international project that uses Wiki software to collaboratively create an encyclopaedia, is becoming more and more popular. Everyone can directly edit articles and every edit is recorded. The version history of all articles is freely available and allows a multitude of examinations. This paper gives an overview on Wikipedia research. Wikipedia’s fundamental components, i.e. articles, authors, edits, and links, as well as content and quality are analysed. Possibilities of research are explored including examples and first results. Several
characteristics that are found in Wikipedia, such as exponential growth and scale-free networks are already known in other context. However the Wiki architecture also possesses some intrinsic specialities. General trends are measured that are typical for all Wikipedias but vary between languages in detail.
| Keywords: | Wikipedia, Wiki, Statistics, Informetrics, Webometrics, Cybermetrics |
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| Subjects: | I. Information treatment for information services > IB. Content analysis (A and I, class.) B. Information use and sociology of information. > BB. Bibliometric methods. H. Information sources, supports, channels. > HP. e-resources. I. Information treatment for information services > IG. Information presentation: hypertext, hypermedia. |
| ID Code: | 3610 |
| Deposited By: | Voss, Jakob |
| Deposited On: | 14 April 2005 |
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