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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…
Global gender differences in Wikipedia readership
Isaac Johnson, Florian Lemmerich, Diego Sáez-Trumper +3
Wikipedia represents the largest and most popular source of encyclopedic knowledge in the world today, aiming to provide equal access to information worldwide. From a global online…
Eliciting New Wikipedia Users' Interests via Automatically Mined Questionnaires: For a Warm Welcome, Not a Cold Start
Ramtin Yazdanian, Leila Zia, Jonathan Morgan +2
Every day, thousands of users sign up as new Wikipedia contributors. Once joined, these users have to decide which articles to contribute to, which users to seek out and learn from…
Thanks for Stopping By: A Study of "Thanks" Usage on Wikimedia
Swati Goel, Ashton Anderson, Leila Zia
The Thanks feature on Wikipedia, also known as "Thanks", is a tool with which editors can quickly and easily send one other positive feedback. The aim of this project is to better…
Why the World Reads Wikipedia: Beyond English Speakers
Florian Lemmerich, Diego Sáez-Trumper, Robert West +1
As one of the Web's primary multilingual knowledge sources, Wikipedia is read by millions of people across the globe every day. Despite this global readership, little is known abou…
Structuring Wikipedia Articles with Section Recommendations
Tiziano Piccardi, Michele Catasta, Leila Zia +1
Sections are the building blocks of Wikipedia articles. They enhance readability and can be used as a structured entry point for creating and expanding articles. Structuring a new…
Why We Read Wikipedia
Philipp Singer, Florian Lemmerich, Robert West +4
Wikipedia is one of the most popular sites on the Web, with millions of users relying on it to satisfy a broad range of information needs every day. Although it is crucial to under…
Growing Wikipedia Across Languages via Recommendation
Ellery Wulczyn, Robert West, Leila Zia +1
The different Wikipedia language editions vary dramatically in how comprehensive they are. As a result, most language editions contain only a small fraction of the sum of informati…
Improving Website Hyperlink Structure Using Server Logs
Ashwin Paranjape, Robert West, Leila Zia +1
Good websites should be easy to navigate via hyperlinks, yet maintaining a high-quality link structure is difficult. Identifying pairs of pages that should be linked may be hard fo…