Disambiguation in Wikipedia: exploring the mechanisms of authority control in the collaborative encyclopedia
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https://doi.org/10.3145/infonomy.25.017Keywords:
Authority control, Controlled vocabularies, Wikipedia, Knowledge organization, Disambiguation, Encyclopedia, Structured dataAbstract
This paper studies Wikipedia's disambiguation system from the perspective of authority control tools and controlled vocabularies. Wikipedia is a system of encyclopedias in different languages, organized into connected entries and cross-references. This paper explores various aspects of disambiguation pages, delineating their level of use and ratios in the most extensive edits. It also explores other characteristics related to the level of activity of its editors, the total number of articles affected by disambiguation, its typology, interlingual equivalence, and its modeling as structured data. Data and metrics are also presented for Castilian and Catalan.References
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