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Curious Rhythms: Temporal Regularities of Wikipedia Consumption
Tiziano Piccardi, Martin Gerlach, Robert West
Wikipedia, in its role as the world's largest encyclopedia, serves a broad range of information needs. Although previous studies have noted that Wikipedia users' information needs…
Going Down the Rabbit Hole: Characterizing the Long Tail of Wikipedia Reading Sessions
Tiziano Piccardi, Martin Gerlach, Robert West
"Wiki rabbit holes" are informally defined as navigation paths followed by Wikipedia readers that lead them to long explorations, sometimes involving unexpected articles. Although…
Wikipedia Reader Navigation: When Synthetic Data Is Enough
Akhil Arora, Martin Gerlach, Tiziano Piccardi +2
Every day millions of people read Wikipedia. When navigating the vast space of available topics using hyperlinks, readers describe trajectories on the article network. Understandin…
A Large-Scale Characterization of How Readers Browse Wikipedia
Tiziano Piccardi, Martin Gerlach, Akhil Arora +1
Despite the importance and pervasiveness of Wikipedia as one of the largest platforms for open knowledge, surprisingly little is known about how people navigate its content when se…
A Multilingual Entity Linking System for Wikipedia with a Machine-in-the-Loop Approach
Martin Gerlach, Marshall Miller, Rita Ho +2
Hyperlinks constitute the backbone of the Web; they enable user navigation, information discovery, content ranking, and many other crucial services on the Internet. In particular,…
Language-agnostic Topic Classification for Wikipedia
Isaac Johnson, Martin Gerlach, Diego Sáez-Trumper
A major challenge for many analyses of Wikipedia dynamics -- e.g., imbalances in content quality, geographic differences in what content is popular, what types of articles attract…
A Taxonomy of Knowledge Gaps for Wikimedia Projects (Second Draft)
Miriam Redi, Martin Gerlach, Isaac Johnson +2
In January 2019, prompted by the Wikimedia Movement's 2030 strategic direction, the Research team at the Wikimedia Foundation identified the need to develop a knowledge gaps index…