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Companies in Multilingual Wikipedia: Articles Quality and Important Sources of Information

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Information Technology for Management: Approaches to Improving Business and Society (FedCSIS-AIST 2022, ISM 2022)

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In this paper, we provide a method for the identification and assessment of reliable internet sources about companies. We first identified 516,586 Wikipedia articles related to companies in 310 language versions, and then extracted and analyzed references contained in them using three different models for article quality assessment. As a result, we compiled a ranking of reliable sources. We found that there are several universal sources shared by many languages, but usually each language has its own specific sources. Our ranking of sources can be useful for Wikipedia editors looking for source material for their articles. Companies themselves can leverage this ranking for public relations activities. Moreover, our method can be used to automatically maintain a list of reliable internet sources.

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This research is supported by the project “OpenFact – artificial intelligence tools for verification of the veracity of information sources and fake news detection” (INFOSTRATEG-I/0035/2021-00), granted within the INFOSTRATEG I program of the National Center for Research and Development, under the topic: Verifying information sources and detecting fake news.

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    Włodzimierz Lewoniewski, Krzysztof Wȩcel & Witold Abramowicz

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Lewoniewski, W., Wȩcel, K., Abramowicz, W. (2023). Companies in Multilingual Wikipedia: Articles Quality and Important Sources of Information. In: Ziemba, E., Chmielarz, W., Wątróbski, J. (eds) Information Technology for Management: Approaches to Improving Business and Society. FedCSIS-AIST ISM 2022 2022. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 471. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-29570-6_3

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