Wikipedia
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Cross-posted from PBS Idea Lab Wikipedia articles on breaking news stories dominate page views on the world’s sixth-largest website. Perhaps more importantly, these articles drive the most significant editor contribution — especially among new editors. In the first three months of this year, English Wikipedia articles with the most contributors were the 2011 Tucson shooting,
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Stuart Geiger and I just presented some research at WikiSym on why Wikipedia articles are deleted through both the speedy deletion or “CSD” process, a unilateral process whereby administrators can deleted problematic articles without discussion, and the articles for deletions or “AfD” process whereby articles discuss whether articles should be deleted. You might imagine that
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In the wake of anxiety about the “trustworthiness” of Wikipedia articles and the different quality levels of articles, a number of tools have been developed to automatically determine how trustworthy content on Wikipedia is. The first is ‘content-based filtering’, the second is ‘collaborative filtering’. Content based filtering uses properties of the text itself to automatically
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