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V Zlatić1, M Bozicević, H Stefancić

  • 1Theoretical Physics Division, Rudjer Bosković Institute, P.O. Box 180, HR-10002 Zagreb, Croatia.

Physical Review. E, Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics
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Wikipedia

Area of Science:

  • Network science
  • Computational social science
  • Information science

Background:

  • Wikipedia is a collaboratively edited, multilingual online encyclopedia.
  • Understanding the structure and growth of large-scale information networks is crucial.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To analyze Wikipedia language versions as complex networks.
  • To identify common network characteristics and growth processes across different Wikipedias.

Main Methods:

  • Representing Wikipedia articles as nodes and hyperlinks as directed links.
  • Analyzing network properties including degree distributions, topology, and path lengths.
  • Comparing Wikipedia network characteristics to other known complex networks.

Main Results:

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  • Multiple language versions of Wikipedia exhibit similar network characteristics.
  • Common features include degree distributions, growth patterns, topology, reciprocity, clustering, assortativity, path lengths, and triad significance profiles.
  • These regularities suggest a universal growth process for Wikipedia.

Conclusions:

  • Wikipedia's structure across languages points to a consistent underlying growth mechanism.
  • Wikipedia networks share properties with other complex networks, offering insights into information dissemination and organization.