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Size matters: word count as a measure of quality on wikipedia

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International World Wide Web Conference archive
Proceeding of the 17th international conference on World Wide Web table of contents

Beijing, China

POSTER SESSION: Posters table of contents

Pages 1095-1096

Year of Publication: 2008

ISBN:978-1-60558-085-2

Author

Joshua E. Blumenstock

University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA

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ACM: Association for Computing Machinery

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

Wikipedia, "the free encyclopedia", now contains over two million English articles, and is widely regarded as a high-quality, authoritative encyclopedia. Some Wikipedia articles, however, are of questionable quality, and it is not always apparent to the visitor which articles are good and which are bad. We propose a simple metric -- word count -- for measuring article quality. In spite of its striking simplicity, we show that this metric significantly outperforms the more complex methods described in related work.

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