%0 Journal Article %1 Spinellis2008 %A Spinellis, Diomidis %A Louridas, Panagiotis %C New York, NY, USA %D 2008 %I ACM %J Communications of the ACM %K Wikipedia articles.collaboration collaboration read %N 8 %P 68--73 %R http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1378704.1378720 %T The collaborative organization of knowledge %U http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=1378704.1378720 %V 51 %X WIKIPEDIA (WWW.WIKIPEDIA.ORG) is a freely available online encyclopedia anyone can edit, contributing changes, as well as articles.10 With more than a million entries, hundreds of thousands of contributors, and tens of millions of fully recorded article revisions, Wikipedia’s freely available database has also made it possible to study how human knowledge is recorded and organized through an open collaborative process. Although citation analysis6 can establish how new research builds on existing publications, the fully recorded evolutionary development of Wikipedia’s structure has allowed us to examine how existing articles foster development of new entries and links. Motivation for our longitudinal study of Wikipedia evolution followed from our observation that even though Wikipedia’s scope is increasing, its coverage is apparently not deteriorating. To study the process of Wikipedia growth we downloaded the February 2006 snapshot of all recorded changes and examined how entries are created and linked.

@article{Spinellis2008, abstract = {WIKIPEDIA (WWW.WIKIPEDIA.ORG) is a freely available online encyclopedia anyone can edit, contributing changes, as well as articles.10 With more than a million entries, hundreds of thousands of contributors, and tens of millions of fully recorded article revisions, Wikipedia’s freely available database has also made it possible to study how human knowledge is recorded and organized through an open collaborative process. Although citation analysis6 can establish how new research builds on existing publications, the fully recorded evolutionary development of Wikipedia’s structure has allowed us to examine how existing articles foster development of new entries and links. Motivation for our longitudinal study of Wikipedia evolution followed from our observation that even though Wikipedia’s scope is increasing, its coverage is apparently not deteriorating. To study the process of Wikipedia growth we downloaded the February 2006 snapshot of all recorded changes and examined how entries are created and linked.}, added-at = {2008-11-04T13:37:15.000+0100}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, author = {Spinellis, Diomidis and Louridas, Panagiotis}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/20a68e9403a331e8d4f1365e0cf0cfbb3/anneba}, description = {The collaborative organization of knowledge}, doi = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1378704.1378720}, interhash = {cad92ebb0fe373050f4997c2c1b93ef8}, intrahash = {0a68e9403a331e8d4f1365e0cf0cfbb3}, issn = {0001-0782}, journal = {Communications of the ACM}, keywords = {Wikipedia articles.collaboration collaboration read}, number = 8, pages = {68--73}, publisher = {ACM}, timestamp = {2009-02-24T14:08:46.000+0100}, title = {The collaborative organization of knowledge}, url = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=1378704.1378720}, volume = 51, year = 2008 }