We propose a novel general technique aimed at pruning and cleansing the Wikipedia category hierarchy, with a tunable level of aggregation. Our approach is endogenous, since it does not use any information coming from Wikipedia articles, but it is based solely on the user-generated (noisy) Wikipedia category folksonomy itself.

For more information see the paper, presented at WWW2016 (companion), Wiki Workshop 2016, at Montreal.

We provide here a ready-to-use dataset, with a recategorization of the wikpedia pages to a set of 10 000 categories (the most important ones according to our approach). If you wish to use a different number of categories, please run the provided code.

To download the dataset go to Releases. Here, you'll find:

• page2cat.tsv.gz is a gzipped TSV file with the mapping from Wikipedia pages to cleansed categories, listed from the most important to the least important.
• ranked-categories.tsv.gz is a gzipped TSV file with every Wikipedia category and our importance score.

We also provide the head of these files (page2cat-HEAD.tsv and ranked-categories-HEAD.tsv) to show how they look like after unzip.

If you wish to use the dataset or the code, please cite: Paolo Boldi and Corrado Monti. "Cleansing wikipedia categories using centrality." Proceedings of the 25th International Conference Companion on World Wide Web. International World Wide Web Conferences Steering Committee, 2016.

Bibtex:

@inproceedings{boldi2016cleansing,
    title={Cleansing wikipedia categories using centrality},
    author={Boldi, Paolo and Monti, Corrado},
    booktitle={Proceedings of the 25th International Conference Companion on World Wide Web},
    pages={969--974},
    year={2016},
    organization={International World Wide Web Conferences Steering Committee}
}

PLEASE NOTE: Experiments described in the paper were run on a 2014 snapshot called enwiki-20140203-pages-articles.xml.bz2, while – to provide an updated version – this dataset refers to enwiki-20160407-pages-articles.xml.bz2.

In order to compile the code, you'll need Java 8, Ant and Ivy. To install them (e.g. inside a clean Vagrant box with ubuntu/trusty64), you should use these lines:

sudo apt-get --yes update
sudo apt-get install -y software-properties-common python-software-properties
echo oracle-java8-installer shared/accepted-oracle-license-v1-1 select true | sudo /usr/bin/debconf-set-selections
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/java -y
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get --yes install oracle-java8-installer
sudo apt-get --yes install oracle-java8-set-default
sudo apt-get --yes install ant ivy
sudo ln -s -T /usr/share/java/ivy.jar /usr/share/ant/lib/ivy.jar

If the environment is set up properly, you should install git and download this repo with

sudo apt-get install git
git clone https://github.com/corradomonti/wikipedia-categories.git

and then go to the directory java. There, run:

• ant ivy-setupjars to download dependencies
• ant to compile
• . setcp.sh to include the produced jar inside the Java classpath.

Now you are ready to run run.sh, which will assume to have the file WIKIDUMP_XML as enwiki-20160407-pages-articles.xml.bz2.