"Wikipedia as an Online Health Information Source: Consumers’ Satisfaction with Information Quality" (Ju et al, 2024) koreascience.kr/article/JAKO20…

Article link network in 6 Wikipedia languages "favors socialism, communism" over capitalism & imperialism in "steady-state opinion polarization" simulation modeled after ferromagnetic interactions (Ising spins). Also: Christianity vs Islam, US Dems vs GOP arxiv.org/abs/2408.07606

"Text Simplification via Adaptive Teaching" a new text simplification model using a teacher network and a text generation network, tested on the D-Wikipedia dataset and the WikiDoc benchmark dataset. (Bahrainian et al, 2024) aclanthology.org/2024.findings-…

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"WiDe-analysis: Enabling One-click Content Moderation Analysis on Wikipedia’s Articles for Deletion" (Borkakoty and Espinosa-Anke) arxiv.org/pdf/2408.05655

"Diversity and bias in DBpedia and Wikidata as a challenge for text-analysis tools" comparing the two data sources with respect to their ontological coverage and diversity, and describe implications for analyses of text corpora. (Berendt et al, 2024) o-bib.de/bib/article/do…

"QuanTemp A real-world open-domain benchmark for fact-checking numerical claims" using evidence from various sources including Wikipedia. (Venktesh V et al, 2024) Vinay Setty pure.tudelft.nl/ws/portalfiles…

"Wiki-VEL: Visual Entity Linking for Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons" predicting labels for Wikimedia Commons images based on Wikidata items as the label inventory. (Bielefeld et al, 2024) aclanthology.org/2024.alvr-1.16… Lucie-Aimée Kaffee Gerard de Melo

"Let’s Edit: Using Wikipedia Edit-a-thons as Vehicles for Information Literacy" doi.org/10.5206/elip.v… "[…] integration of Wikipedia into information literacy instruction through the use of edit-a-thons, highlighting its potential despite historical skepticism from librarians."

"Are Female Carpenters like Blue Bananas? A Corpus Investigation of Occupation Gender Typicality" finds relationship between gender mentioning in Wikipedia and Reddit and actual (from BLS-Labor Statistics) femaleness of occupations. (Ju et al, 2023) arxiv.org/pdf/2408.02948 Adina Williams

"KGPrune: a Web Application to Extract Subgraphs of Interest from Wikidata with Analogical Pruning" arxiv.org/html/2408.1465… kgprune.loria.fr

"Modeling and Enhancing Human Knowledge Navigation" Phd Thesis from Akhil Arora, developing methods for understanding and modeling human navigation on Wikipedia, and devising tools for mitigating content and structural knowledge gaps. infoscience.epfl.ch/entities/publi…

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"GeoReasoner: Reasoning On Geospatially Grounded Context For Natural Language Understanding" , a language model capable of reasoning on geospatially grounded natural language, using OpenStreetMap, @wikipedia and Wikidata. (Yan and Lee, ACM CIKM 2024 ) arxiv.org/pdf/2408.11366

🎉My favourite PhD chapter found its home in New Media & Society: I explore whether offline ties matter in online elections, focusing on Wikipedia. In short: They do! Personal connections to voters&candidate affect a user's adminship votes🔗doi.org/10.1177/146144… WikiResearch

"What does it mean to be queer in @Wikidata? Practices of gender representation within a transnational online community" (Melis et al, 2024) academic.oup.com/ccc/advance-ar… Dani Metilli 🍉

"Multi-FAct: Assessing Factuality of Multilingual LLMs using FActScore" tested using non-English Wikipedia to provide comprehensive guidelines on multilingual factual evaluation for regionally diverse topics. (Shafayat et al, 2024) openreview.net/pdf?id=lkrH6ov…