2006/02/28 by V. Zlatic, Vinko Zlatić, M. Bozicevic +6 · 1 citation
Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · Social Sciences · #Art #Artificial intelligence #Assortativity #Average path length #Biology #Brazilian cultural history and politics #Cluster analysis #Clustering coefficient #Complex network #Computer network #Computer science #Encyclopedia #Graph #Humanities #Hyperlink #Information retrieval #Library science #Mathematics #Path (computing) #Point (geometry) #Reciprocity (cultural anthropology) #Shortest path problem #Sociology #Theoretical computer science #Web page #Wikis in Education and Collaboration #World Wide Web #physics.soc-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physreve.74.016115
published as Phys. Rev. E 74, 016115 (2006) · v3: 9 pages, 12 figures, Change of title, few paragraphs and two figures. Accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. E
arxiv created 2006/07/03 · openalex publication_date 2007/01/01 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/04
Wikipedia is a popular web-based encyclopedia edited freely and collaboratively by its users. In this paper we present an analysis of Wikipedias in several languages as complex networks. The hyperlinks pointing from one Wikipedia article to another are treated as directed links while the articles represent the nodes of the network. We show that many network characteristics are common to different language versions of Wikipedia, such as their degree distributions, growth, topology, reciprocity, clustering, assortativity, path lengths, and triad significance profiles. These regularities, found in the ensemble of Wikipedias in different languages and of different sizes, point to the existence of a unique growth process. We also compare Wikipedias to other previously studied networks.