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Grokipedia vs Wikipedia: Quantitative Analysis (video)

Nov

11

2025

Recently, Grokipedia v0.1 was released — an AI-based knowledge system inspired by Wikipedia. But how complete is it? And what does its topic coverage look like compared to Wikipedia? Moreover, how does it differ across the many language editions of the world’s largest encyclopedia?

Wikimania 2025: Climate Change Knowledge on Wikipedia (video)

Aug

12

2025

During the Wikimania 2025 conference, the results of a scientific study were presented, focusing on a cross-language comparative analysis of Wikipedia articles on climate change. Using open datasets made it possible to examine article quality and compare their popularity across languages. For instance, an analysis of over one billion links between Wikipedia articles helped identify ...

Wiki Workshop 2025: Citation Index and Synthetic Quality Measure for Wikipedia (video)

Jun

28

2025

At the Wiki Workshop 2025, the results of a scientific study were presented in which a comprehensive analysis of Wikipedia articles was conducted across 55 language editions and 18 thematic categories. The study introduced an original approach combining a citation index with a synthetic quality measure for articles.

Semantic mapping of disinformation: identifying fake news topics

Nov

9

2024

The scientific article entitled “Sentence Embeddings and Semantic Entity Extraction for Identification of Topics of Short Fact-Checked Claims” has been published in open access. The paper describes an approach to assigning topics to claims verified by fact-checking agencies.

Analysis of cryptocurrency exchanges using open data

Sep

3

2024

The work of our scientists on the analysis of digital currency exchanges has been published on the Springer website. As part of the research, models for predicting the success and bankruptcy of cryptocurrency exchanges were developed, based on financial data and information collected from open Internet sources such as Wikipedia and Wikidata. The aim of ...

Measuring Americanization across the world using Wikidata and Wikipedia (video)

Aug

26

2024

During the Wikimania 2024 conference, the results of scientific research on measuring Americanization in various regions of the world based on open data from Wikipedia and Wikidata were presented. The conducted research reveals differences in interest in American topics depending on the level of development of countries, offering a new perspective on global cultural dominance. ...

Automatic quality assessment of articles in multilingual Wikipedia and identification of its important information sources on various topics

Mar

9

2024

An open scientific seminar of the Institute of Informatics and Quantitative Economics on automatic quality assessment of articles in multilingual Wikipedia and identification of important sources of its information on various topics was held at the Poznań University of Economics and Business. During the seminar, the methods and tools used to analyze and evaluate content ...

Quantifying Americanization: A comparative analysis of information in Wikipedia

Jan

13

2024

The research paper entitled “Quantifying Americanization: Coverage of American Topics in Different Wikipedias” was published in the Social Science Computer Review journal. This is the first quantitative study that confirms various theories about Americanization and related phenomena often discussed in scientific literature.

Quality of content on Wikipedia and reliability of information sources

Jan

5

2024

The latest issue of the ACADEMIA journal published an article that focuses on automating the process of assessing the quality of content in Wikipedia, an encyclopedia available in many languages. The publication draws attention to both the advantages and disadvantages of the open nature of Wikipedia, including differences in the systems for assessing the quality ...

Analysis of the use of scientific sources on Wikipedia depending on the topic and language

Dec

29

2023

The paper entitled “Understanding the Use of Scientific References in Multilingual Wikipedia across Various Topics” was published in Elsevier’s Procedia Computer Science on ScienceDirect. As part of the scientific research, hundreds of millions of footnotes in Wikipedia articles from various language versions were analyzed to identify scientific sources of information. In addition, Wikipedia articles have ...