Wikipedia is one of the main repositories of free knowledge available today, with a central role in the Web ecosystem. For this reason, it can also be a battleground for actors trying to impose specific points of view or even spreading disinformation online. There is a growing need to monitor its "health" but this is not an easy task. Wikipedia exists in over 300 language editions and each project is maintained by a different community, with their own strengths, weaknesses and limitations. In this paper, we introduce a taxonomy of knowledge integrity risks across Wikipedia projects and a first set of indicators to assess internal risks related to community and content issues, as well as external threats such as the geopolitical and media landscape. On top of this taxonomy, we offer a preliminary analysis illustrating how the lack of editors' geographical diversity might represent a knowledge integrity risk. These are the first steps of a research project to build a Wikipedia Knowledge Integrity Risk Observatory.
翻译：维基百科是当今免费知识的主要储存库之一,在网络生态系统中发挥着中心作用。 因此, 维基百科也可以成为试图强加特定观点甚至在线传播虚假信息的行为者的战场。 越来越需要监测其“ 健康 ”, 但这不是一件容易的任务。 维基百科以300多种语言版本存在, 每个项目都由不同的社区维护, 都有各自的优势、 弱点和局限性。 在本文中, 我们引入了维基百科项目的知识完整性风险分类, 以及一套评估与社区和内容问题有关的内部风险以及地缘政治和媒体景观等外部威胁的指标。 除了这一分类学外, 我们提供初步分析, 说明缺乏编辑的地域多样性可能构成知识完整性风险。 这是建立维基百科知识完整性风险观测站的研究项目的第一步。
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