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Wikimania 2025: Climate Change Knowledge on Wikipedia (video)
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August 12, 2025 2 min

Wikimania 2025: Climate Change Knowledge on Wikipedia (video)

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 […]

#climate change #Dariusz Jemielniak #global warming #video #Wikidata #Wikimania #Wikipedia #Wikipedia quality
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25 Years of Wikipedia: A Chronicle of Milestones (2001–2025)
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July 31, 2025 6 min

25 Years of Wikipedia: A Chronicle of Milestones (2001–2025)

Recently, the English Wikipedia reached an impressive 7 million articles, and together, all language versions now boast over 65 million articles. This new video animates the monthly growth of over 300 Wikipedia language editions, tracking article numbers from January 2001 to May 2025. Explore the rapid expansion, milestone moments, and the collaborative effort that shaped […]

#video #Wikipedia #Wikipedia quality
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Boundaries of Neutrality: Sentiment Analysis of Wikipedia Articles About Companies
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July 17, 2025 2 min

Boundaries of Neutrality: Sentiment Analysis of Wikipedia Articles About Companies

A new scientific paper has been published that takes on the challenge of assessing the neutrality of Wikipedia articles about companies, using advanced sentiment analysis tools. This publication represents an important step toward monitoring the neutrality of one of the most influential sources of knowledge on the Internet and may be useful to anyone interested […]

#Aleksandra Wojewoda #Izabela Czumałowska #Milena Stróżyna #sentiment analysis #Wikipedia #Wikipedia quality
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Wiki Workshop 2025: Citation Index and Synthetic Quality Measure for Wikipedia (video)
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June 28, 2025 3 min

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

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.

#citation index #Hugging Face #Kaggle #Krzysztof Węcel #video #Wiki Workshop #Wikidata #Wikipedia #Wikipedia quality #Witold Abramowicz
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Dataset with Quality Assessment of 47 Million Wikipedia Articles
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March 5, 2025 3 min

Dataset with Quality Assessment of 47 Million Wikipedia Articles

On the Hugging Face platform, an extensive dataset has been published containing the results of automated quality assessments for 47 million Wikipedia articles in 55 language versions. These evaluations were carried out using the algorithms employed by WikiRank.net, a tool that compares the quality of Wikipedia articles across different languages.

#dataset #Hugging Face #Wikipedia #Wikipedia quality #WikiRank
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Semantic mapping of disinformation: identifying fake news topics
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November 9, 2024 2 min

Semantic mapping of disinformation: identifying fake news topics

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.

#DBpedia #Ewelina Księżniak #fake news #Krzysztof Węcel #Marcin Sawiński #Milena Stróżyna #OpenFact #Wikidata #Wikipedia #Witold Abramowicz
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Panel discussion at the Wikimania 2024 conference (video)
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September 28, 2024 2 min

Panel discussion at the Wikimania 2024 conference (video)

During the international conference Wikimania 2024, a panel discussion entitled “Keynote: Opening the Academia” took place. The panel concerned the topic of open science and its various aspects. In particular, the challenges faced by academic institutions that try to implement the principles of open science and the obstacles that hinder these processes were discussed. The […]

#Dariusz Jemielniak #Julia Maria Koszewska #Katarzyna Makowska #video #Wikimania #Wikimedia #Wikipedia
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Analysis of cryptocurrency exchanges using open data
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September 3, 2024 1 min

Analysis of cryptocurrency exchanges using open data

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 […]

#cryptocurrencies #machine learning #open data #Piotr Stolarski #Wikidata #Wikipedia
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Measuring Americanization across the world using Wikidata and Wikipedia (video)
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August 26, 2024 3 min

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

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. […]

#Americanization #Piotr Konieczny #presentation #video #Wikidata #Wikimania #Wikipedia
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The most cited scientific information sources in Wikipedia articles across various languages
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March 28, 2024 2 min

The most cited scientific information sources in Wikipedia articles across various languages

The latest issue of the journal “Biblioteka” published an article on the analysis of citations to scientific works in Wikipedia. The analysis covered 332 million references in 61 million Wikipedia articles in 309 language versions. In order to standardize the metadata of important sources of information on multilingual Wikipedia, data from the OpenAlex, an open […]

#AMU #information sources #OpenAlex #reliability #Wikipedia #Wikipedia quality
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