Community Structures in Wikipedia
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Wikipedia, seemingly more than other Web sites, has a rich link structure that seems ripe for analysis. The communities that might exist in Wikipedia may be evident in the network’s structure. This paper investigates the network structure of Wikipedia, and explores the degree to which the community structures map to the tags that del.icio.us users annotate pages with. The extent to which Wikipedia’s communities follow the cluster hypothesis is explored, along with potential ways to use community structures in retrieval.
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