WikiPulse - A News-Portal Based on Wikipedia
Tobias Futterer, Peter A. Gloor, Tushar Malhotra, Harrison Mfula,, Karsten Packmohr, Stefan Schultheiss
TL;DR
WikiPulse leverages Wikipedia's real-time updates to identify and display late-breaking news, providing a complementary news source that captures emerging stories faster than traditional outlets.
Contribution
This paper introduces a novel news-reader system that automatically detects and showcases late-breaking news from Wikipedia, enhancing real-time news dissemination.
Findings
Wikipedia often reports entertainment and sports news earlier than traditional media.
The system successfully identifies recent Wikipedia articles related to breaking news.
WikiPulse demonstrates the potential of Wikipedia as a real-time news source.
Abstract
More and more user-generated content is complementing conventional journalism. While we don't think that CNN or New York Times and its professional journalists will disappear anytime soon, formidable competition is emerging through humble Wikipedia editors. In earlier work (Becker 2012), we found that entertainment and sports news appeared on average about two hours earlier on Wikipedia than on CNN and Reuters online. In this project we build a news-reader that automatically identifies late-breaking news among the most recent Wikipedia articles and then displays it on a dedicated Web site.
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Taxonomy
TopicsWikis in Education and Collaboration · Digital Games and Media · Digital Rights Management and Security