An empirical study to predict the quality of wikipedia articles

Abstract

Wikipedia is considered a common way to deliver content in a more effective way as compared to other types of an encyclopedia. However, the quality threat remains an issue regarding the Wikipedia articles. The basic aim of propose research to perform an empirical study to predict the quality of Wikipedia articles. In the proposed methodology, we consider few metrics such as article length (total number of word in an article), number of edits, article age (in the day) and article ranking and perform few statistical tests analyze the quality of Wikipedia articles. Moreover, we observe a significant correlation of proposed metrics with the rating of articles in order to identify their quality.