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The Collaborative Organization of Knowledge: Source Code
Spinellis, Diomidis;
Louridas, Panos
Wikipedia is an ongoing endeavor to create a free encyclopedia through an open computer-mediated collaborative effort. How does Wikipedia grow and maintain its coverage? This page contains supporing material relevant to a publication that examines this question.
- Diomidis Spinellis and Panagiotis Louridas. The collaborative organization of knowledge. Communications of the ACM, 51(8):68–73, August 2008. (doi:10.1145/1378704.1378720)
In the above paper, a longitudinal study of Wikipedia's evolution shows that although Wikipedia's scope is increasing, its coverage is not deteriorating. This can be explained by the fact that referring to an non-existing entry typically leads to the establishment of an article for it. Wikipedia's evolution also demonstrates the creation of a large real world scale-free graph through a combination of incremental growth and preferential attachment.
See also the comments appearing in a corresponding blog entry and an update containing an analysis of two more years (2006-2007).
The source code used to process Wikipedia's XML dump is distributed as open source software.
| Name | Size | |
|---|---|---|
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source.tar.gz
md5:c42965288a1482237e251ad82c2ae253 |
10.5 kB | Download |
| All versions | This version | |
|---|---|---|
| Views | 354 | 354 |
| Downloads | 16 | 16 |
| Data volume | 167.6 kB | 167.6 kB |
| Unique views | 305 | 305 |
| Unique downloads | 15 | 15 |
- Publication date:
- June 26, 2008
- DOI:
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- Keyword(s):
- Replication package Wikipedia Evolution
- Related identifiers:
- Supplement to
- Communities:
- License (for files):
- BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License