Wikipedia is Not a Dictionary, Delete! Text Classification as a Proxy for Analysing Wiki Deletion Discussions

Hsuvas Borkakoty, Luis Espinosa-Anke
3/13/2025
cs.CLcs.LG

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Automated content moderation for collaborative knowledge hubs like Wikipedia or Wikidata is an important yet challenging task due to multiple factors. In this paper, we construct a database of discussions happening around articles marked for deletion in several Wikis and in three languages, which we then use to evaluate a range of LMs on different tasks (from predicting the outcome of the discussion to identifying the implicit policy an individual comment might be pointing to). Our results reveal, among others, that discussions leading to deletion are easier to predict, and that, surprisingly, self-produced tags (keep, delete or redirect) don't always help guiding the classifiers, presumably because of users' hesitation or deliberation within comments.

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@article{borkakoty2025wikipedia,
  title  = {Wikipedia is Not a Dictionary, Delete! Text Classification as a Proxy for Analysing Wiki Deletion Discussions},
  author = {Hsuvas Borkakoty and Luis Espinosa-Anke},
  year   = {2025},
  eprint = {2503.10294},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url    = {http://arxiv.org/abs/2503.10294v1}
}

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