Multilingual Ranking of Wikipedia Articles with Quality and Popularity Assessment in Different Topics

Abstract

In Wikipedia, articles about various topics can be created and edited independently in each language version. Therefore, quality of information about the same topic depends on language. Any interested user can improve an article and that improvement may depend on popularity of the article. The goal of this study is to show what topics are best represented in different language versions of Wikipedia using results of quality assessment for over 39 million articles in 55 languages. In this paper, we also analyze how popular are selected topics among readers and authors in various languages. We used two approaches to assign articles to various topics. First, we selected 27 main multilingual categories and analyzed all their connections with sub-categories based on information extracted from over 10 million categories in 55 language versions. To classify the articles to one of the 27 main categories we took into account over 400 million links from articles to over 10 million categories and over 26 million links between categories. In the second approach we used data from DBpedia and Wikidata. We also showed how the results of the study can be used to build local and global rankings of the Wikipedia content.

Women's Participation in Wikipedia: Cross-Border Balkan Perspective

“…Undoubtedly, it has become an influential source of information on the Internet (Reangle et al, 2020), which contains numerous data on various concepts and personalities, including data on prominent women from different countries. This is proven by the fact that millions of people on a daily basis use the information they find on Wikipedia on various topics (Lewoniewski et al, 2019). For these reasons, we can say that Wikipedia is a leading example of historical change, which is reflected in the way in which knowledge can be shared with others.…”