3 papers
cs.CY2024
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…
cs.SI2024
Orphan Articles: The Dark Matter of Wikipedia
Akhil Arora, Robert West, Martin Gerlach
With 60M articles in more than 300 language versions, Wikipedia is the largest platform for open and freely accessible knowledge. While the available content has been growing conti…
cs.DL2024
Open Access Improves the Dissemination of Science: Insights from Wikipedia
Puyu Yang, Ahad Shoaib, Robert West +1
Wikipedia is a well-known platform for disseminating knowledge, and scientific sources, such as journal articles, play a critical role in supporting its mission. The open access mo…