Tell me more: an actionable quality model for Wikipedia

  • Authors:

  • Morten Warncke-Wang;Dan Cosley;John Riedl

  • Affiliations:

  • University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN;Cornell University, Ithaca, NY;University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Open Collaboration
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

In this paper we address the problem of developing actionable quality models for Wikipedia, models whose features directly suggest strategies for improving the quality of a given article. We first survey the literature in order to understand the notion of article quality in the context of Wikipedia and existing approaches to automatically assess article quality. We then develop classification models with varying combinations of more or less actionable features, and find that a model that only contains clearly actionable features delivers solid performance. Lastly we discuss the implications of these results in terms of how they can help improve the quality of articles across Wikipedia.