WikiSTAR: A System for Shedding Light on the Hidden History of Scientific Wikipedia Articles
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. We present WikiSTAR (Scientific Tracking of Article Revisions), an interactive system for exploring scientifically meaningful changes across an article's revision history. Using an LLM classifier with an expert-designed multi-label taxonomy, WikiSTAR first tags edit types such a
Lineage graph
Paper → model → repo connections mined from source citations (Tier-1 exact match).
Why these links exist
Every edge carries a method, confidence, and the source snippet that justified it — so bad links are debuggable.
- PossiblePossibly related (embedding) · 54%alfadur7/llm-wiki-newsroom →
- PossiblePossibly related (embedding) · 53%tuirk/Kompl →
- PossiblePossibly related (embedding) · 51%Making it easier to understand how content was created and edited →
- PossiblePossibly related (embedding) · 50%grobidOrg/grobid →
- PossiblePossibly related (embedding) · 27%Tencent/WeKnora →
“Possibly related via embedding similarity 0.59 (not asserted). Timestamp check: artifact slightly before paper (-11d).”
- LinkedLinked via arxiv author · 85%Omer Ehrlich →
“WikiSTAR: A System for Shedding Light on the Hidden History of Scientific Wikipedia Articles”
- LinkedLinked via arxiv author · 85%Nitzan Barzilay →
“WikiSTAR: A System for Shedding Light on the Hidden History of Scientific Wikipedia Articles”
- LinkedLinked via arxiv author · 85%Rona Aviram →
“WikiSTAR: A System for Shedding Light on the Hidden History of Scientific Wikipedia Articles”