Sure! At a high level, our process for matching citations is:
1. Look for any template starting whose name begins with "cite" or
"citation". We search through at most one nested level of templates.
2. For each "" tag:
* For each wiki links and url inside the ref tag:
* Add any links
Shilad,
Very cool! Thanks for sharing. I do have a couple of questions...
On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 7:15 PM, Shilad Sen wrote:
> Greetings!
>
> I'm a CS Professor at Macalester College in St. Paul and I'm on research
> sabbatical at GroupLens this year. I've been working with Heather Ford and
> Da
Shilad -- I was on the verge of parsing a recent dump using my Exploratory
Parsing tools. I'd be interested in duplicating your work to see if I could get
the same numbers. Are you willing to share the criteria you have for citations,
even if messy? Thanks and best regards. -- Ward
On Apr 22,
Greetings!
I'm a CS Professor at Macalester College in St. Paul and I'm on research
sabbatical at GroupLens this year. I've been working with Heather Ford and
Dave Musicant to explore several research questions related to citation use
on Wikipedia.
We're still in the middle of analyzing data, and
Joe: that's the same question the alt-metrics people were getting at
in the paper I posted earlier... does being cited in WP give you a
measurable citations boost? Does the same boost carry over even if the
work is only in print or behind a paywall vs open access? Or, does it
have an effect at all
Thank you all for the replies, I need some time to process this
information.
Cheers
Yaroslav
1. What is the average lifetime of a Wikipedia editor (for instance
the
one with at leat 1000 contributions)? I recollect smth about two
years, but
I am pretty sure I have never seen any research on t
