Abstract:
Although Wikipedia has been one of the most
successful experiments in crowdsourced knowledge building so
far, recent statistics show that the growth rate of Wikipedia has
decreased. Does it indicate that Wikipedia has come against its
limits of growth? A recent survey conducted by us, however,
shows that Wikipedia is unable to satisfactorily answer the
queries of the users many a times. We believe that the readers
can provide a better insight into the shortcomings of the articles.
This paper proposes the incorporation of a Q&A facility into
Wikipedia as one of the possible measures to fill the knowledge
gap. We created a local Wiki, named Q-Wiki, at our institute,
coupled with the features of Q&A. The experiment conducted
on Q-Wiki verifies the effectiveness of the proposed idea.
