A large-scale characterization of how readers browse Wikipedia

T Piccardi, M Gerlach, A Arora, R West - ACM Transactions on the Web, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Despite the importance and pervasiveness of Wikipedia as one of the largest platforms for
open knowledge, surprisingly little is known about how people navigate its content when …

Entity Insertion in Multilingual Linked Corpora: The Case of Wikipedia

T Feith, A Arora, M Gerlach, D Paul, R West - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Links are a fundamental part of information networks, turning isolated pieces of knowledge
into a network of information that is much richer than the sum of its parts. However, adding a …

Considerations for multilingual wikipedia research

I Johnson, E Lescak - arXiv preprint arXiv:2204.02483, 2022 - arxiv.org
English Wikipedia has long been an important data source for much research and natural
language machine learning modeling. The growth of non-English language editions of …

Individual differences in knowledge network navigation

M Zhu, T Yasseri, J Kertész - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
With the rapid accumulation of online information, efficient web navigation has grown vital
yet challenging. To create an easily navigable cyberspace catering to diverse …

Poor attention: The wealth and regional gaps in event attention and coverage on Wikipedia

T Ruprechter, K Burghardt, D Helic - PLoS one, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Wikipedia is an important source of general knowledge covering a wide range of topics.
Moreover, for many people around the world, it also serves as an essential news source for …

Going down the rabbit hole: characterizing the long tail of wikipedia reading sessions

T Piccardi, M Gerlach, R West - Companion Proceedings of the Web …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
“Wiki rabbit holes” are informally defined as navigation paths followed by Wikipedia readers
that lead them to long explorations, sometimes involving unexpected articles. Although wiki …

Towards a Taxonomy for the Use of Synthetic Data in Advanced Analytics

P Kowalczyk, G Welsch, F Thiesse - arXiv preprint arXiv:2212.02622, 2022 - arxiv.org
The proliferation of deep learning techniques led to a wide range of advanced analytics
applications in important business areas such as predictive maintenance or product …

Navigating Knowledge: Patterns and Insights from Wikipedia Consumption

T Piccardi, R West - arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.00939, 2025 - arxiv.org
The Web has drastically simplified our access to knowledge and learning, and fact-checking
online resources has become a part of our daily routine. Studying online knowledge …

On the effective transfer of knowledge from English to Hindi Wikipedia

P Das, A Roy, R Chakraborty, A Mukherjee - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Although Wikipedia is the largest multilingual encyclopedia, it remains inherently
incomplete. There is a significant disparity in the quality of content between high-resource …

[PDF][PDF] Readership of Wikipedia

L Rasberry, D Mietchen - ARPHA Preprints, 2024 - preprints.arphahub.com
Various sources describe Wikipedia's popularity in different ways, including by count of its
users, frequency of use, and its utility as an information resource in many fields of …