TY - GEN
T1 - Consider the redirect
T2 - 10th International Symposium on Open Collaboration, OpenSym 2014
AU - Hill, Benjamin Mako
AU - Shaw, Aaron
PY - 2014/1/1
Y1 - 2014/1/1
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
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U2 - 10.1145/2641580.2641616
DO - 10.1145/2641580.2641616
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84908650950
T3 - Proceedings of the 10th International Symposium on Open Collaboration, OpenSym 2014
SP - F5
BT - Proceedings of the 10th International Symposium on Open Collaboration, OpenSym 2014
PB - Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
Y2 - 27 August 2014 through 29 August 2014
ER -