An analysis of topical coverage of Wikipedia
An analysis of topical coverage of Wikipedia
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DOI：
10.1111/j.1083-6101.2008.00403.x
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发表时间：
2008-01-01
影响因子：
7.2
通讯作者：
Lackaff, Derek
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作者：
Halavais, Alexander;Lackaff, Derek
许多人质疑维基百科的可靠性和准确性。这里有一个不同的问题，但一个密切相关的：维基百科的覆盖范围有多广？维基百科编辑的兴趣和注意力的差异意味着某些领域，例如传统科学，比其他领域覆盖得更好。两种方法来衡量这一覆盖面。第一个将维基百科上的主题分布映射到已出版书籍的分布。第二个比较的主题分布在三个既定的，特定领域的学术百科全书的文章在维基百科上找到。与传统百科全书自上而下的构建不同，维基百科的主题报道是由用户的兴趣驱动的，因此，维基百科的可靠性和完整性可能会根据文章的主题领域而有所不同。
Many have questioned the reliability and accuracy of Wikipedia. Here a different issue, but one closely related: how broad is the coverage of Wikipedia? Differences in the interests and attention of Wikipedia's editors mean that some areas, in the traditional sciences, for example, are better covered than others. Two approaches to measuring this coverage are presented. The first maps the distribution of topics on Wikipedia to the distribution of books published. The second compares the distribution of topics in three established, field-specific academic encyclopedias to the articles found in Wikipedia. Unlike the top-down construction of traditional encyclopedias, Wikipedia's topical coverage is driven by the interests of its users, and as a result, the reliability and completeness of Wikipedia is likely to be different depending on the subject-area of the article.