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Our work on orphan articles in Wikipedia has been featured on @EPFL_en's front page today. The paper will be presented at @icwsm on 5th June 2024 in Buffalo.
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arxiv.org/pdf/2306.03940
Our work on orphan articles in Wikipedia has been featured on @EPFL_en's front page today. The paper will be presented at @icwsm on 5th June 2024 in Buffalo.
epfl.ch/en
arxiv.org/pdf/2306.03940
#1 We conduct the first systematic study of orphan articles, which are articles without any incoming links from other Wikipedia articles, across 319 different language versions of Wikipedia.
#2 We found that a surprisingly large extent of content, roughly 15% (8.8M) of all articles, is effectively invisible to readers browsing Wikipedia.
#3 Most importantly, we design a novel quasi-experiment, which establishes a causal link between adding new incoming links to orphans (de-orphanization) and an increase in their visibility in terms of the number of pageviews.
#4 We further highlight the challenges faced by editors for de-orphanizing articles and provide potential solutions for developing automated tools based on link translations.
Initial tool prototype: linkrec.toolforge.org
Initial tool prototype: linkrec.toolforge.org
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