Charakteristisch für Web2.0-Anwendungen ist die kooperative Inhaltserstellung durch die Internetnutzer selbst. Nach dem Zerplatzen der „Dotcom-Blase“ im Jahr 2001 gewannen solche Anwendungen im WWW zunehmend an Bedeutung (O’Reilly 2005). Ein besonders verbreiteter Anwendungstyp innerhalb des Web2.0 sind Wikis. Es handelt sich dabei um Websites, deren Inhalte zumeist ohne vorherige Anmeldung und...

The improvement of information quality is a major task for the free online encyclopedia Wikipedia. Recent studies targeted the analysis and detection of specific quality flaws in Wikipedia articles. To date, quality flaws have been exclusively investigated in current Wikipedia articles, based on a snapshot representing the state of Wikipedia at a certain time. This paper goes further, and provi...

Wikipedia is a free-content Internet encyclopedia that can be edited by anyone who accesses it. As a result, Wikipedia contains both featured and non-featured articles. Featured articles are high-quality articles and nonfeatured articles are poor quality articles. Since there is an exponential growth of Wikipedia articles, the need to identify the featured Wikipedia articles has become indispen...