A QUANTITATIVE EXAMINATION OF THE IMPACT OF FEATURED ARTICLES IN WIKIPEDIA

Antonio J. Reinoso, Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona, Rocío Muñoz-Mansilla, Israel Herraiz

2011

Abstract

This paper presents a quantitative examination of the impact of the presentation of featured articles as quality content in the main page of several Wikipedia editions. Moreover, the paper also presents the analysis performed to determine the number of visits received by the articles promoted to the featured status. We have analyzed the visits not only in the month when articles awarded the promotion or were included in the main page, but also in the previous and following ones. The main aim for this is to assess the attention attracted by the featured content and the different dynamics exhibited by each community of users in respect to the promotion process. The main results of this paper are twofold: it shows how to extract relevant information related to the use of Wikipedia, which is an emerging research topic, and it analyzes whether the featured articles mechanism achieve to attract more attention.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

J. Reinoso A., M. Gonzalez-Barahona J., Muñoz-Mansilla R. and Herraiz I. (2011). A QUANTITATIVE EXAMINATION OF THE IMPACT OF FEATURED ARTICLES IN WIKIPEDIA . In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Software and Database Technologies - Volume 1: ICSOFT, ISBN 978-989-8425-76-8, pages 301-304. DOI: 10.5220/0003494903010304

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icsoft11,
author={Antonio J. Reinoso and Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona and Rocío Muñoz-Mansilla and Israel Herraiz},
title={A QUANTITATIVE EXAMINATION OF THE IMPACT OF FEATURED ARTICLES IN WIKIPEDIA},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Software and Database Technologies - Volume 1: ICSOFT,},
year={2011},
pages={301-304},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003494903010304},
isbn={978-989-8425-76-8},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Software and Database Technologies - Volume 1: ICSOFT,
TI - A QUANTITATIVE EXAMINATION OF THE IMPACT OF FEATURED ARTICLES IN WIKIPEDIA
SN - 978-989-8425-76-8
AU - J. Reinoso A.
AU - M. Gonzalez-Barahona J.
AU - Muñoz-Mansilla R.
AU - Herraiz I.
PY - 2011
SP - 301
EP - 304
DO - 10.5220/0003494903010304