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In the new edition of our monthly newsletter:.* How readers use Wikipedia health content.* Scholars are generally happy with how their papers are cited on Wikipedia.* Several other papers about references on Wikipedia.and more:.
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"The most influential philosophers in Wikipedia: a multicultural analysis" (based on link graphs in 9 Wikipedia languages) 1. Aristotle.2. Plato.3. Marx.4. Kant.5. Homer.6. Cicero.7. Descartes.8. Augustine of Hippo.9. Freud.10. Leibniz
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"Filling in the Blanks? A Systematic Review and Theoretical Conceptualisation for Measuring WikiData Content Gaps"
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"Investigating Wikipedia: Linguistic corpus building, exploration and analysis" (book)
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RT @RevanthAtmakuri: 🤖 Algorithms: great at picking your next obsession, bad at letting you think. This paper says bring back *friction*—li….
arxiv.org
Today's algorithm-driven interfaces, from recommendation feeds to GenAI tools, often prioritize engagement and efficiency at the expense of user agency. As systems take on more decision-making,...
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RT @aaiashn: I Still Haven’t Found what I’m Looking for: Predicting Security-Related Incidents and Conflict Fatalities with Google Trends a….
journals.sagepub.com
Conflict forecasting has seen two recent developments: a shift to predicting continuous variables and a debate about the value of structural and procedural vari...
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"How Grounded is Wikipedia?" "∼ 20% of claims in Wikipedia lead sections are unsupported by the article body; ∼ 27% of annotated claims in the article body are unsupported by their [. ] cited sources; and > 80% of lead claims cannot be traced"
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RT @ceekz: Thank you for coming to our presentation titled "Global Editing Patterns on Wikipedia Platform Reveal Segmentations in Knowledge….
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"Student contributions to Wikipedia as evidence of learning and competence development in distance education" (in Spanish, with English abstract)
Acaban de publicarnos en @REDDUSC "Las contribuciones del estudiantado universitario a Wikipedia como evidencia de aprendizaje", un artículo sobre cómo aprenden los estudiantes universitarios editando @Wikipedia @eswikipedia @wikimedia_es @WikiResearch ¡Gracias!
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RT @gangi_official: This work will also be presented at the ACL 2025 NLP for Wikipedia workshop at Friday Aug 1 3-4:30pm CET.@WikiResearch.
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RT @gangi_official: Excited to share our new work on Automatic Wikipedia Updating with LLM Agents!. We introduce WiNELL, an agentic framewo….
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"Proper Noun Diacritization for Arabic Wikipedia: A Benchmark Dataset" #WikiNLP. GPT-4o "performs reasonably well, especially on frequent names" in adding diacritics missing on Arabic Wikipedia, but "struggles with rarer entries and variant mappings."
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"Wikivecs: A Fully Reproducible Vectorization of Multilingual Wikipedia" by @nomic_ai .Dataset: ("resulting from several H100 days of processing time")
so exciting to get a chance to collaborate with @Wikipedia & @Wikimedia on the first full multilingual wikipedia map! even more excited that the entire pipeline (encoder, article vectors, and visualization method) is open source 🧵.
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RT @ngqm_: ❓ Can external information from Wikipedia or web search enhance LLMs’ performance in stance detection? Our Findings paper, to be….
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RT @aroraakhilcs: 3⃣ Entity Insertion in Multilingual Linked Corpora: The Case of Wikipedia. Fri 1 Aug, 15:00 - 16:30 CET.Room: 2.31 (WikiN….
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"Factual Inconsistencies in Multilingual Wikipedia Tables" ."while English provides the most comprehensive coverage in terms of volume, German Wikipedia faces significant data quality challenges despite having substantial content"
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"The afterlife of a ghost-written paper: How corporate authorship shaped two decades of glyphosate safety discourse", including on English Wikipedia.(editors held Monsanto's authorship didn't render it an inadmissible source as long as it wasn't retracted)
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RT @annbot: Wikidata for Botanists: Connecting People, Plants, and Data. 🧑🔬Now in @botanyone 🌿 . Full paper: http….
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RT @_reachsumit: Millions of GeARs: Extending GraphRAG to Millions of Documents. Huawei presents a method to scale GraphRAG to millions of….
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Recent studies have explored graph-based approaches to retrieval-augmented generation, leveraging structured or semi-structured information -- such as entities and their relations extracted from...
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"The negotiation of pronominal address on talk pages of the German, French, and Italian Wikipedia".German and Italian "wikiquette" stipulates the informal "du"/"tu" among editors (instead of "Sie"/"Lei"). French Wikipedia lacks consensus on "vous" vs. "tu".
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"WETBench: A Benchmark for Detecting Task-Specific Machine-Generated Text on Wikipedia" "[AI] detectors from diverse families [e.g. Binoculars, FastDetectGPT] underperform on our data"
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