Size matters: word count as a measure of quality on wikipedia Export

@inproceedings{citeulike:3196708, abstract = {Wikipedia, "the free encyclopedia", now contains over two million English articles, and is widely regarded as a high-quality, authoritative encyclopedia. Some Wikipedia articles, however, are of questionable quality, and it is not always apparent to the visitor which articles are good and which are bad. We propose a simple metric -- word count -- for measuring article quality. In spite of its striking simplicity, we show that this metric significantly outperforms the more complex methods described in related work.}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, author = {Blumenstock, Joshua E.}, booktitle = {WWW '08: Proceeding of the 17th international conference on World Wide Web}, citeulike-article-id = {3196708}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1367497.1367673}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1367497.1367673}, doi = {10.1145/1367497.1367673}, isbn = {978-1-60558-085-2}, keywords = {collaboration, cooperation, information, internet, knowledge, networks, quality, wikipedia}, location = {Beijing, China}, pages = {1095--1096}, posted-at = {2009-01-07 21:22:54}, priority = {2}, publisher = {ACM}, title = {Size matters: word count as a measure of quality on wikipedia}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1367497.1367673}, year = {2008} }

TY - CONF ID - citeulike:3196708 L3 - citeulike-article-id:3196708 N2 - Wikipedia, "the free encyclopedia", now contains over two million English articles, and is widely regarded as a high-quality, authoritative encyclopedia. Some Wikipedia articles, however, are of questionable quality, and it is not always apparent to the visitor which articles are good and which are bad. We propose a simple metric -- word count -- for measuring article quality. In spite of its striking simplicity, we show that this metric significantly outperforms the more complex methods described in related work. CY - Beijing, China SN - 978-1-60558-085-2 AD - New York, NY, USA EP - 1096 TI - Size matters: word count as a measure of quality on wikipedia PB - ACM T2 - WWW '08: Proceeding of the 17th international conference on World Wide Web SP - 1095 KW - collaboration KW - cooperation KW - information KW - internet KW - knowledge KW - networks KW - quality KW - wikipedia AU - Blumenstock, Joshua PY - 2008/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1367497.1367673 ER -