Wikipedia and Westminster: Quality and Dynamics of Wikipedia Pages about UK Politicians
Wikipedia is a major source of information providing a large variety of content online, trusted by readers from around the world. Readers go to Wikipedia to get reliable information about different subjects, one of the most popular being living people, and especially politicians. While a lot is known about the general usage and information consumption on Wikipedia, less is known about the life-cycle and quality of Wikipedia articles in the context of politics. The aim of this study is to quantif
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10.1145/3372923.3404817
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Wikipedia and Westminster: Quality and Dynamics of Wikipedia Pages about UK Politicians
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https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3372923.3404817
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Pushkal Agarwal, Miriam Redi, Nishanth Sastry, Edward Wood, Andrew Blick
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https://doi.org/10.1145/3372923.3404817
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Wikipedia is a major source of information providing a large variety of content online, trusted by readers from around the world. Readers go to Wikipedia to get reliable information about different subjects, one of the most popular being living people, and especially politicians. While a lot is known about the general usage and information consumption on Wikipedia, less is known about the life-cycle and quality of Wikipedia articles in the context of politics. The aim of this study is to quantif
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wikipedia; politics; editors; polarisation
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HT-2020_51-35_3372923/3372923.3404817.pdf
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• Computing methodologies →Information extraction; • In-
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Pushkal Agarwal, Miriam Redi, Nishanth Sastry, Edward Wood, Andrew Blick