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“The sum of all human knowledge”: A systematic review of scholarly research on the content of Wikipedia Mostafa Mesgari John Molson School of Business, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada mmesgari@jmsb.concordia.ca Chitu Okoli John Molson School of Business, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada Chitu.Okoli@concordia.ca Mohamad Mehdi Computer Science, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada mo_mehdi@encs.concordia.ca Finn Årup Nielsen DTU Compute, Technical University of Denmark, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark faan@dtu.dk Arto Lanamäki Department of Information Processing Science, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland arto.lanamaki@oulu.fi This is a postprint of an article accepted for publication in Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology copyright © 2014 (American Society for Information Science and Technology). The paper can be cited as: Mesgari, Mostafa, Chitu Okoli, Mohamad Mehdi, Finn Årup Nielsen and Arto Lanamäki (2014). “The sum of all human knowledge”: A systematic review of scholarly research on the content of Wikipedia. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (Forthcoming since April 2014). Abstract Wikipedia might possibly be the best-developed attempt thus far of the enduring quest to gather all human knowledge in one place. Its accomplishments in this regard have made it an irresistible point of inquiry for researchers from various fields of knowledge. A decade of research has thrown light on many aspects of the Wikipedia community, its processes, and content. However, due to the variety of the fields inquiring about Wikipedia and the limited synthesis of the extensive research, there is little consensus on many aspects of Wikipedia’s content as an encyclopedic collection of human knowledge. This study addresses the issue by systematically