A Reliability Measure of Articles in Wikipedia based on Edit History

Abstract

In this paper, we propose an editor-based credibility calculation method for articles inWikipedia. Wikipedia is the encyclopedia which can edit by everyone who access the Wikipedia. Therefore, when an author edit uncertain or uncredible description to an article, the edited article is uncredible. We assume that the credibilities of articles are based on the credibility of the authors. This means that uncredible authors frequently write uncredible descriptions, whereas credible authors frequently write credible descriptionns. We assume that uncredible articles are suddenly edit by another credible authors for correcting descriptions. Then, the remain ratio of articles by authors should depends on the credibility of authors. In our experimental evaluation, we confirmed that our proporsed method performs better accuracy.