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SUMMARY:Improving Wikipedia quality across languages
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DESCRIPTION:Tiziano Piccardi\nEDIC candidacy exam\nExam president: Prof. K
 arl Aberer\nThesis advisor: Prof. Robert  West\nCo-examiner: Prof. Pierre
  Dillenbourg\n\nAbstract\nSince its creation in 2001\, Wikipedia has becom
 e the reference platform for the free knowledge sharing. In these years\, 
 thanks to a very active community of volunteers\, the website extended its
  coverage to 291 languages and many million topics. Despite this impressiv
 e success\, the current versions of the encyclopedia present many limitati
 ons. For example\, in the English version\, the editors flagged 37% of the
  articles as incomplete or with poor quality. Furthermore\, the knowledge 
 is not uniform across all the languages and\, although the English Wikiped
 ia has several million articles\, a large portion of the available languag
 es have less than 100k pages.\nIn this report\, I will give an overview of
  how I plan to address this issue\, and of the related work on which I wil
 l build upon. The proposed solution is a recommender system that supports 
 the editors in the writing of one article by providing suggestions about m
 issing content. This system will be a way to reduce the onboarding barrier
  and to guide the newcomers in preparing high quality and consistent conte
 nt. The recommendations will come from two main sources: inter-language\, 
 by exploiting content from other Wikipedia editions\, and intra-language\,
  by extracting information from articles with similar type.\n\nBackground 
 papers\nOmnipedia: bridging the wikipedia language gap\, by  Patti Bao et
  al. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing
  Systems (CHI '12). \nMultiWiBi: The multilingual Wikipedia bitaxonomy pr
 oject\, by Tiziano Flati et al.  Artificial Intelligence 241 (2016).\nGro
 wing Wikipedia Across Languages via Recommendation\, by  E. Wulczyn et al
 .  In Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on World Wide Web 
 (WWW '16).\n\n\n 
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