Abstract
Redirects are special pages in wikis that silently transport visitors to other pages. Although redirects make up a majority of all article pages in English Wikipedia, they have attracted very little attention and are rarely taken into account by researchers. This note describes redirects and illustrates why they play an important role in shaping activity in Wikipedia. We also present a novel longitudinal dataset of redirects for English Wikipedia and the software used to produce it. Using this dataset, we revisit several important published findings about Wikipedia to show that accounting for redirects can have important effects on research.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Title of host publication | Proceedings of the 10th International Symposium on Open Collaboration, OpenSym 2014 |
| Publisher | Association for Computing Machinery, Inc |
| Pages | F5 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781450330169 |
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| State | Published - 2014 |
| Event | 10th International Symposium on Open Collaboration, OpenSym 2014 - Berlin, Germany Duration: Aug 27 2014 → Aug 29 2014 |
Publication series
| Name | Proceedings of the 10th International Symposium on Open Collaboration, OpenSym 2014 |
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Other
| Other | 10th International Symposium on Open Collaboration, OpenSym 2014 |
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| Country/Territory | Germany |
| City | Berlin |
| Period | 8/27/14 → 8/29/14 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Software
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