Assessing Information Quality of a Community-Based Encyclopedia

By Besiki Stvilia, Michael B. Twidale, Linda C. Smith, Les Gasser. MIT International Conference on Information Quality, 2005

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Toward an Evidence-Based System for Innovation Support for Implementing Innovations with Quality: Tools, Training, Technical Assistance, and Quality Assurance/Quality Improvement (2012, background): “…including accessibility, appropriateness in amount of information, believability, completeness, conciseness and consistency in representation, interpretability, objectivity, relevancy, timeliness, and understandability (Groi et al. 1998; Kahn et al. 2002; Lee et al. 2002; Stvilia et al. 2005).”
Sequential Influence Models in Social Networks (2010, background): “(Viegas et al. 2007; Stvilia et al. 2005; Voss 2005; Wilkinson and Huberman 2007; Crandall et al. 2008)).”
Web-based statistical fact checking of textual documents (2010, background): “[13] proposed seven metrics for assessing Wikipedia articles quality combined from eighteen different features.”
He says, she says: conflict and coordination in Wikipedia (2007, methodology): “[22] used factor analysis to determine a set of metrics related to article quality, including the number of edits, unique editors, and anonymous edits.”
Feedback effects between similarity and social influence in online communities (2008, background): “The entire edit history of Wikipedia is freely available for analysis, making it attractive for research (see e.g. [5, 25, 23, 26]).”
Introduction to the special topic section on mining Web resources for enhancing information retrieval (2007, background): “collaborative encyclopedia (Stvilia et al., 2005a, Stvilia et al., 2005b ).”
Creating, destroying, and restoring value in wikipedia (2007, background): “dias [8], contrasting participation in Wikipedia and in open source software projects [17], and analyzing the development of contributors from an activity-theoretic perspective [4].”
Information quality work organization in wikipedia (2008, unknown): “Nonetheless, these two elements of history entries can still provide valuable information about the social structure and dynamics of the article's content creation (Stvilia et al., 2005b).”
Finding social roles in Wikipedia (2011, methodology): “Both pundits like Stephen Colbert and researchers [23], [13] have been pre-occupied with the question of whether Wikipedia is of sufficient quality and whether its pages constitute legitimate references [23]--which some people argue will never be the case as long as it relies on non-expert volunteer”
Size matters: word count as a measure of quality on wikipedia (2008, methodology): “Stvilia et al. [5], computed 19 quantitative metrics, then used factor analysis and k-means clustering to differentiate featured from random articles.”
Cooperation and quality in wikipedia (2007, background): “…Permission to make digital or hard copies of all or part of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for pro.t or commercial advantage and that copies bear this notice and the full citation on the .rst page.”