Assessing the quality of Wikipedia articles with lifecycle based metrics

The main feature of the free online-encyclopedia Wikipedia is the wiki-tool, which allows viewers to edit the articles directly in the web browser. As a weakness of this openness for example the possibility of manipulation and vandalism cannot be ruled out, so that the quality of any given Wikipedia article is not guaranteed. Hence the automatic quality assessment has been becoming a high active research field. In this paper we offer new metrics for an efficient quality measurement. The metrics are based on the lifecycles of low and high quality articles, which refer to the changes of the persistent and transient contributions throughout the entire life span. Categories and Subject Descriptors H.5.3 [Information Interfaces and Presentation]: Group and Organization Interfaces – Computer-supported cooperative work, web-based interaction; K.4.3 [Computers and Society]: Organizational Impacts—Computer-supported collaborative work General Terms Measurement, Reliability, Experimentation...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2009
• Where: WIKIS
• Authors: Thomas Wöhner, Ralf Peters
• Keywords: Free Online-encyclopedia Wikipedia, Internet Technology, Quality Assessment, Transient Contribution, WIKIS 2009