Assessing information quality of a community-based encyclopedia

Besiki Stvilia; Michael Bernard Twidale; Linda C Smith; Les Gasser

Assessing information quality of a community-based encyclopedia

Besiki Stvilia, Michael Bernard Twidale, Linda C Smith, Les Gasser

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Effective information quality analysis needs powerful yet easy ways to obtain metrics. The English version of Wikipedia provides an extremely interesting yet challenging case for the study of Information Quality dynamics at both macro and micro levels. We propose seven IQ metrics which can be evaluated automatically and test the set on a representative sample of Wikipedia content. The methodology of the metrics construction and the results of tests, along with a number of statistical characterizations of Wikipedia articles, their content construction, process metadata and social context are reported.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 2005 International Conference on Information Quality, ICIQ 2005
State	Published - 2005
Event	10th International Conference on Information Quality, ICIQ 2005 - Cambridge, MA, United States Duration: Nov 4 2005 → Nov 6 2005

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Other	10th International Conference on Information Quality, ICIQ 2005
Country/Territory	United States
City	Cambridge, MA
Period	11/4/05 → 11/6/05

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Information Systems
Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality

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