wikipedia

I am happy to share some recent performance results of a new parser for Wikipedia data dumps that I have developed over the past 2 months.

The new parser is also written in Python, as it was its predecessor included in WikiXRay. However, this new parser comes with notable improvements in speed and accuracy:

Ortega, Felipe, Daniel Izquierdo-Cortazar, Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona, and Gregorio Robles. "On the Analysis of Contributions from Privileged Users in Virtual Open Communities." In 42th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), 1-10. Waikoloa, Big Island, Hawaii , USA: IEEE Computer Society, 2009.

Reinoso, Antonio J., Felipe Ortega, Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona, and Israel Herraiz. "A Statistical Approach to the Impact of Featured Articles in Wikipedia." In 2nd International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development (KEOD). Valencia, Spain, 2010.

Ortega, Felipe. Wikipedia: A quantitative analysis In Departamento de Sistemas Telemáticos y Computación (GSyC). Vol. Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science. Móstoles, Spain: Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, 2009.