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most citedWikipedia Reader Navigation: When Synthetic Data Is Enough

9 citations · 17 across the 3 of their papers we have counts for

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8 papers

cs.CY2022

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…

cs.CY20229 cited

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…

cs.CY20218 cited

On the Value of Wikipedia as a Gateway to the Web

Tiziano Piccardi, Miriam Redi, Giovanni Colavizza +1

By linking to external websites, Wikipedia can act as a gateway to the Web. To date, however, little is known about the amount of traffic generated by Wikipedia's external links. W…

cs.CL2020

Crosslingual Topic Modeling with WikiPDA

Tiziano Piccardi, Robert West

We present Wikipedia-based Polyglot Dirichlet Allocation (WikiPDA), a crosslingual topic model that learns to represent Wikipedia articles written in any language as distributions…

cs.CY2020

Quantifying Engagement with Citations on Wikipedia

Tiziano Piccardi, Miriam Redi, Giovanni Colavizza +1

Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia that anyone can edit, is one of the most visited sites on the Web and a common source of information for many users. As an encyclopedia, Wik…

cs.CY2020

WikiHist.html: English Wikipedia's Full Revision History in HTML Format

Blagoj Mitrevski, Tiziano Piccardi, Robert West

Wikipedia is written in the wikitext markup language. When serving content, the MediaWiki software that powers Wikipedia parses wikitext to HTML, thereby inserting additional conte…