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EVOLUTION OF WIKIPEDIA'S CATEGORY STRUCTURE
2012
Advances in Complex Systems
Wikipedia, as a social phenomenon of collaborative knowledge creating, has been studied extensively from various points of views. The category system of Wikipedia, introduced in 2004, has attracted relatively little attention. In this study, we focus on the documentation of knowledge, and the transformation of this documentation with time. We take Wikipedia as a proxy for knowledge in general and its category system as an aspect of the structure of this knowledge. We investigate the evolution
doi:10.1142/s0219525912500683
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