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Wikiometrics: a Wikipedia based ranking system
Katz G., Rokach L. World Wide Web20 (6):1153-1177,2017.Type:Article
Date Reviewed: Feb 21 2018

Wikipedia is one of the most popular websites. It is famous for showing crowd intelligence in many areas, including science, medicine, physics, and so on. People use Wikipedia to learn and extend their knowledge. However, it is not well known that a Wikipedia page provides not only content, but also some interesting features such as page view statistics and incoming links. This paper presents a novel usage of Wikipedia by using those interesting features.

Various ranking systems are widely used on the Internet. Various numbers such as number of page views, number of links, and number of searched keywords are currently monitored in many ranking systems to find out the popularity and the impact of web content on the Internet. However, it is more challenging to rank things in the real world, such as universities or journals, because they are not evaluated by a single factor. This paper presents how Wikipedia can be used in ranking things in the real world. The proposed Wikiometrics system is calculated using infobox data, incoming links, outgoing links, and page view statistics on Wikipedia pages, to rank universities and journals. The underlying idea is that a highly ranked university will show rich and active online content. For example, the number of university webpages, the number of accessible recent publications, and the number of most cited papers will be indicators of the quality of a university.

This paper shows how such online indicators can be gathered from Wikipedia and proposes a metric called Wikiometric. To evaluate the proposed Wikiometric, the authors present how the university ranking list generated by Wikiometrics is correlated with that generated by traditional ranking systems such as the academic ranking of world universities (ARWU), the Times Higher Education world university ratings, and Webometrics ranking of world universities. The similarity comes from the fact that traditional ranking systems also use online content to measure the quality of universities. Due to this similarity, it is reasonable to use Wikipedia instead of traditional expensive ranking systems for university ranking. Similar results are shown in the journal rankings.

It is shown that Wikiometrics is useful and reliable in university and journal ranking for cost reduction. However, the reliability of Wikiometrics comes from its similarity with widely accepted traditional ranking systems. Thus, it would be better to use Wikiometrics as a quick and cheap method to compensate for traditional ranking systems rather than as a way to replicate them.

Reviewer:  Seon Yeong Han Review #: CR145869 (1805-0251)
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