Quality Assessment of Wikipedia Articles Using <i>h</i>-index

• Suzuki Yu

  Graduate School of Science and Technology, Nara Institute of Science and Technology

Bibliographic Information

Other Title

• Quality Assessment of Wikipedia Articles Using h-index

Abstract

In this paper, we propose a method for assessing quality values of Wikipedia articles from edit history using h-index. One of the major methods for assessing Wikipedia article quality is a peer-review based method. In this method, we assume that if an editor's texts are left by the other editors, the texts are approved by the editors, then the editor is decided as a good editor. However, if an editor edits multiple articles, and the editor is approved at a small number of articles, the quality value of the editor deeply depends on the quality of the texts. In this paper, we apply h-index, which is a simple but resistant to excessive values, to the peer-review based Wikipedia article assessment method. Although h-index can identify whether an editor is a good quality editor or not, h-index cannot identify whether the editor is a vandal or an inactive editor. To solve this problem, we propose p-ratio for identifying which editors are vandals or inactive editors. From our experiments, we confirmed that by integrating h-index with p-ratio, the accuracy of article quality assessment in our method outperforms the existing peer-review based method.

Journal

• Journal of Information Processing

  Journal of Information Processing 23 (1), 22-30, 2015

  Information Processing Society of Japan

Keywords

• Wikipedia
• <i>h</i>-index
• peer-review
• quality

Details

• CRID: 1390001205295990912
• NII Article ID: 130004952399
• NII Book ID: AA00700121
• DOI: 10.2197/ipsjjip.23.22
• ISSN: 18826652
• Web Site: http://id.nii.ac.jp/1001/00112841/
• Web Site: https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/ipsjjip/23/1/23_22/_pdf
• Text Lang: en
• Data Source:
  • JaLC
  • IRDB
  • Crossref
  • CiNii Articles
  • KAKEN
• Abstract License Flag: Disallowed