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

By Joshua Blumenstock. The Web Conference, 2008

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Disinformation on the Web: Impact, Characteristics, and Detection of Wikipedia Hoaxes (2016, background): “Such metrics are often based on textual properties of the article such as word counts [3], or on the edit history of the article [8, 41]; most approaches, however, focus on reputation mechanisms and the interactions between articles and their contributors [23, 18, 44].”
Using natural language generation to bootstrap missing Wikipedia articles: A human-centric perspective (2022, background): “In particular, as research suggests that the length of an article indicates its quality – basically the longer, the better [9].”
WP:clubhouse?: an exploration of Wikipedia's gender imbalance (2011, background): “While length is a very simple metric, existing research shows that it is an excellent predictor of a Wikipedia article’s assessment level [3, 32], which is a community-assigned rating of an article’s overall quality.”
First Women, Second Sex: Gender Bias in Wikipedia (2015, background): “13). Addressing the gender gap from a content perspective may help to improve the quality and value of the content. Currently, focus on quality in Wikipedia has been about predicting article quality (Blumenstock, 2008; Anderka, Stein, and Lipka, 2012; Flekova, Ferschke, and Gurevych, 2014). However,”