Collaborative thesaurus tagging the Wikipedia way

This paper explores the system of categories that is used to classify articles in Wikipedia. It is compared to collaborative tagging systems like del.icio.us and to hierarchical classification like the Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC). Specifics and commonalitiess of these systems of subject indexing are exposed. Analysis of structural and statistical properties (descriptors per record, records per descriptor, descriptor levels) shows that the category system of Wikimedia is a thesaurus that combines collaborative tagging and hierarchical subject indexing in a special way.

• Publication year

  2006

• Venue

  arXiv.org

• Publication date

  2006-04-10

• Fields of study

  Linguistics, Computer Science

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  arXiv cs/0604036
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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