Abstract：The number of Wikipedia articles and contributors grows at a very fast pace, therefore, a remarkable property of some Wikipedia articles were written by up to thousands of authors who have contradicting opinions. This paper aims to indentify controversial articles in Wikipedia. It draws clues from the edit history page in Wikipedia based on the traditional methods, and takes into account the contributors of the corresponding article to compute controversial scores. We also introduce a new intuitive evaluation method besides the PRF and NDCG evaluation metrics. Experiments on 16745 Wikipedia articles show that our methods perform much better than the other baseline models.
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