Born to be geek! -- Wikipedia2023-01-05T18:15:16+01:00http://herraiz.org/blog/tags/wikipedia/Israel Herraizisra@herraiz.orgDo featured articles get more visits in Wikipedia?2010-11-15T00:00:00+01:00http://herraiz.org/blog/2010/11/15/do-featured-articles-get-more-visits-in-wikipedia<p>
My colleague Antonio Reinoso is close to finish his PhD thesis on the
analysis of usage patterns of Wikipedia. We have collaborated in a
paper that is one of the main results of his PhD work, about the
impact of featured articles in Wikipedia, with a paper entitled "A
statistical approach to the impact of featured articles in Wikipedia".
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The results show that the featured article mechanism only increases
visits to articles in the English Wikipedia, while in other top
editions of Wikipedia the level of visits does not change when the
articles are marked as featured. Why does this work only for the
English Wikipedia? We do not know yet, and that makes me even more
impatient to Antonio to finish his dissertation where he explores this
and other very interesting questions and queer findings.
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The paper is <a href="http://herraiz.org/papers/english/KEOD2010.pdf">available in PDF</a>, and it can be cited using this BibTeX
code (also available as a <a href="http://herraiz.org/bibtex/english/KEOD2010.txt">text file for your convenience</a>):
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<pre class="src src-bibtex">@InProceedings{reinoso2010:wikipedia_featured,
author = {Antonio J. Reinoso
and Felipe Ortega
and Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona
and Israel Herraiz},
title = {A statistical approach to the
impact of featured articles
in Wikipedia},
booktitle = {International Conference
on Knowledge Engineering
and Ontology Development},
year = {2010},
address = {Valencia, Spain},
}
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