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Enrichment of Information in Multilingual Wikipedia Based on Quality Analysis

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Abstract

Despite the fact that Wikipedia is one of the most popular sources of information in the world, it is often criticized for the poor quality of content. In this online encyclopaedia articles on the same topic can be created and edited independently in different languages. Some of this language versions can provide valuable information on a specific topics. Wikipedia articles may include infobox, which used to collect and present a subset of important information about its subject. This study presents method for quality assessment of Wikipedia articles and information contained in their infoboxes. Choosing the best language versions of a particular article will allow for enrichment of information in less developed version editions of particular articles.

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  1. 1.

    http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm.

  2. 2.

    http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/wikipedia.org.

  3. 3.

    https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias.

  4. 4.

    http://dbpedia.org.

  5. 5.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_article_criteria.

  6. 6.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Good_article_criteria.

  7. 7.

    http://wikirank.net.

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Lewoniewski, W. (2017). Enrichment of Information in Multilingual Wikipedia Based on Quality Analysis. In: Abramowicz, W. (eds) Business Information Systems Workshops. BIS 2017. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 303. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69023-0_19

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