Jakob Voss has published a paper on Wikipedia’s category system and how it compares with tag-based folksonomies and the Dewey Decimal Classification system. At the time he did the research (Jan., 2006), there were 923,196 articles in the Gnlish version, and a full 94% of them had at least one category tag. There were a 91,502 unique categories. Then the paper gets statistical beyond my understanding, but that’s my problem, not the paper’s… [Tags: wikipedia tagging taxonomy everything_is_miscellaneous]

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