Wikipedia Articles

Despite the fact that Wikipedia is often criticized for its poor quality, it still is one of the most popular knowledge bases in the world. In Wikipedia you can sometimes find valuable information – depending on the language version and subject.

Automatic quality assessment of Wikipedia articles based on classification models has some limitations related to different quality standards between language chapters of Wikipedia. Such differences in standards were also observed in a comparison of classification models based on similar quality classes. Therefore, some studies propose a novel method for estimating articles on a continuous scale (from 0 to 100) which allows to compare Wikipedia articles even between language versions (with different quality standards). This method is based on synthetic quality measure and has been tested in 55 language versions. The results of quality and popularity assessment of over 40 million Wikipedia articles are available on the WikiRank project.

There is also a tool for quality assessment of a Wikipedia article from the current browser tab. This add-on allows you to get the quality and popularity assessment of a Wikipedia article that is opened in the browser. To test how it works, you need to open any Wikipedia article in Chrome and then press the WikiRank icon.

Browser extension is available on Chrome Web Store and on Firefox Add-ons.