Publication Type

Conference Proceeding Article

Version

submittedVersion

Publication Date

11-2007

Abstract

Wikipedia has grown to be the world largest and busiest free encyclopedia, in which articles are collaboratively written and maintained by volunteers online. Despite its success as a means of knowledge sharing and collaboration, the public has never stopped criticizing the quality of Wikipedia articles edited by non-experts and inexperienced contributors. In this paper, we investigate the problem of assessing the quality of articles in collaborative authoring of Wikipedia. We propose three article quality measurement models that make use of the interaction data between articles and their contributors derived from the article edit history. Our Basic model is designed based on the mutual dependency between article quality and their author authority. The PeerReview model introduces the review behavior into measuring article quality. Finally, our ProbReview models extend PeerReview with partial reviewership of contributors as they edit various portions of the articles. We conduct experiments on a set of well-labeled Wikipedia articles to evaluate the effectiveness of our quality measurement models in resembling human judgement.

Keywords

peer review, article quality, collaborative authoring, authority, wikipedia

Discipline

Databases and Information Systems | Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing

Publication

CIKM '07: Proceedings of the 16th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management: Lisbon, Portugal, November 6-10

First Page

243

Last Page

252

ISBN

9781595938039

Identifier

10.1145/1321440.1321476

Publisher

ACM

City or Country

New York

Additional URL

https://doi.org/10.1145/1321440.1321476

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