How complete is wikipapers referata site? Could it be the case of lack
of updates/maintenance/editor activity resulting in missing data?
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Piotr Konieczny, PhD
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Piotr Konieczny, 14/11/2014 09:24:
How complete is wikipapers referata site?
Rather complete. There are some duplicates but we definitely have the
majority of the publications (perhaps 90 %?) known to most sources.
Could it be the case of lack
of updates/maintenance/editor activity
Personally, I have seen no qualitative decrease in high quality studies of
Wikimedia projects. It seems to me that a whole new class of studies about
Wikidata are just gaining traction and that the ACM conferences I frequent
have a renewed interest in Wikipedia as an instance of a mature open
The data needs cleaning (and every small edit or redirect helps), but
multiple sources agree on a trend similar to this, from 2011 to 2014
(partial): 943, 778, 489, 250.
http://wikipapers.referata.com/wiki/2011
http://wikipapers.referata.com/wiki/2012
http://wikipapers.referata.com/wiki/2013
Without digging into the details, my first guess would be that more
non-English research is being conducted as the size of non-English
Wikipedias increase. Those conducting such research are less likely to
publish English summaries of their work, making them less findable and
thus less likely to
This sort of thing happens all the time in the research world.
Someone publishes a paper about some new topic, in this case Wikipedia.
Everyone else says hey, maybe I can apply my usual research techniques that
I use to study frog mating to Wikipedia instead, hmm, how about the ways
editors find
