Hunters, busybodies and the knowledge network building associated with deprivation curiosity

DM Lydon-Staley, D Zhou, AS Blevins, P Zurn… - Nature human …, 2021 - nature.com
The open-ended and internally driven nature of curiosity makes characterizing the
information seeking that accompanies it a daunting endeavour. We use a historico …

Architectural styles of curiosity in global Wikipedia mobile app readership

D Zhou, S Patankar, DM Lydon-Staley, P Zurn… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
Intrinsically motivated information seeking is an expression of curiosity believed to be central
to human nature. However, most curiosity research relies on small, Western convenience …

Empathy plasticity: decolonizing and reorganizing Wikipedia and other online spaces to address racial equity

JM Ezell - Ethnic and Racial Studies, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
The spring of 2020 represented a watershed-moment-in-the-making, as broad, inclusive
discussions on how to best cultivate discursive and policy mechanisms towards racial equity …

Quantifying engagement with citations on Wikipedia

T Piccardi, M Redi, G Colavizza, R West - Proceedings of The Web …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
Wikipedia is one of the most visited sites on the Web and a common source of information
for many users. As an encyclopedia, Wikipedia was not conceived as a source of original …

Wikipedia's Intentional Distortion of the History of the Holocaust

J Grabowski, S Klein - The Journal of Holocaust Research, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
This essay uncovers the systematic, intentional distortion of Holocaust history on the English-
language Wikipedia, the world's largest encyclopedia. In the last decade, a group of …

[PDF][PDF] A total error framework for digital traces of humans

I Sen, F Floeck, K Weller, B Weiss… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2019 - researchgate.net
The interactions and activities of hundreds of millions of people worldwide are recorded as
digital traces every single day. When pulled together, these data offer increasingly …

What makes a link successful on wikipedia?

D Dimitrov, P Singer, F Lemmerich… - Proceedings of the 26th …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
While a plethora of hypertext links exist on the Web, only a small amount of them are
regularly clicked. Starting from this observation, we set out to study large-scale click data …

A large-scale characterization of how readers browse Wikipedia

T Piccardi, M Gerlach, A Arora, R West - ACM Transactions on the Web, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Despite the importance and pervasiveness of Wikipedia as one of the largest platforms for
open knowledge, surprisingly little is known about how people navigate its content when …

A general centrality framework-based on node navigability

P De Meo, M Levene, F Messina… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Centrality metrics are a popular tool in Network Science to identify important nodes within a
graph. We introduce the Potential Gain as a centrality measure that unifies many walk-based …

Wikipedia reader navigation: When synthetic data is enough

A Arora, M Gerlach, T Piccardi, A García-Durán… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Every day millions of people read Wikipedia. When navigating the vast space of available
topics using hyperlinks, readers describe trajectories on the article network. Understanding …