On July 18-22 Wikimania conference 2018 took place, during which important Wikipedia findings from the last year was presented. Among the studies: Relative Quality and Popularity Evaluation of Multilingual Wikipedia Articles
On July 18-20, 2018 at the Fraunhofer FOKUS in Berlin, the 21st edition of the International Conference on Business Information Systems (BIS 2018) was held. During the conference, the work “Comparative analysis of the informativeness and encyclopedic style of the popular Web information sources” and “Measures for Quality Assessment of Articles and Infoboxes in Multilingual […]
The Wikimedia Poland Conference 2018 took place in Katowice from 8 to 10 June, 2018. One of the presentations concerned the researches on automatic quality assessment of articles and infoboxes in multilingual Wikipedia using over 300 measures.
The goal of QOD workshop is to bring together different communities working on quality of information in Wikipedia, DBpedia, Wikidata and other open knowledge bases. The workshop calls for sharing research experience and knowledge related to quality assessment in open data.
On March 14, 2018 during the celebration of the International Pi Day, Włodzimierz Lewoniewski provided lecture about automatic evaluation of information quality in a multilingual Wikipedia for pupils of the High School no 1 in Poznań. During the lecture the history of development, the most important principles and problems of this popular encyclopedia were presented. […]
On January 29th, at the Silesian University of Technology in Gliwice were announced results of the competition for the best international student in Poland – INTERSTUDENT 2018. Main prizes of the competition were awarded to: Aigerim Balkhashbayeva (bachelor’s studies, SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities), Safoura Reza (master’s studies, Wrocław University of Environmental and […]
This article presents an overview of scientific works related to quality assessment of Wikipedia in different languages. Despite the fact that Wikipedia is often criticized for its poor quality, it still is one of the most popular knowledge bases in the world. Currently, this online encyclopedia is on the 5th place in the ranking of […]
Wikilinks are internal hyperlinks on Wikipedia, a popular Internet encyclopaedia. A unique article identifier is hidden behind so-called surface form, which is a grammatical match of a given term accordingly to the context in which it occurs. Therefore, a given term can have multiple surface forms.
This article presents and classifies features that can be extracted from Wikipedia articles for the purpose of automatic information quality assessment. Based on a state of the art analysis and our own experiments, specific measures for various aspects of quality have been defined.
The use of the logistic regression in the assessment of the quality of data may have a significant impact on data management in the era of big data, where we are all dealing with a number of variables and amount of information describing some interesting phenomenon or behaviour.
