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WikiStar: A System for Shedding Light on the Hidden History of Scientific Wikipedia Articles


bstract Wikipedia plays a key role in shaping public understanding of science, and its openly accessible revision history is a unique record of how scientific knowledge evolves over time. Yet scientifically meaningful revisions are obscured by the sheer volume of routine edits, leaving each article’s scientific history hidden.

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