User contribution and trust in Wikipedia
Published 1 January 2009Open access
Sara Javanmardi, Yasser Ganjisaffar, Cristina Lopes, Pierre Baldi
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An empirical study of user contributions to Wikipedia is presented, showing that regardless of a user s' attribution, registered or anonymous, high reputation users are the dominant contributors that actively edit Wikipedia articles in order to remove vandalism or poor quality content.
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Wikipedia, one of the top ten most visited websites, is commonly viewed as the largest online reference for encyclopedic knowledge. Because of its open editing model -allowing anyone to enter and edit content- Wikipedia's overall quality has often been questioned as a source of reliable information.
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