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Turned 70? It is time to start editing Wikipedia [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 2017
Success of Wikipedia would not be possible without the contributions of millions of anonymous Internet users who edit articles, correct mistakes, add links or pictures. At the same time Wikipedia editors are currently overworked and there is always more tasks waiting to be completed than people willing to volunteer.
arxiv  

A season for all things: Phenological imprints in Wikipedia usage and their relevance to conservation

open access: yesPLoS Biology, 2019
Phenology plays an important role in many human–nature interactions, but these seasonal patterns are often overlooked in conservation. Here, we provide the first broad exploration of seasonal patterns of interest in nature across many species and ...
J. Mittermeier   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Reading Comprehension in an Online World: Challenges, Opportunities, and Implications for Education

open access: yesThe Reading Teacher, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Internet has transformed the way we read and the context in which we acquire knowledge. Online reading brings both unique opportunities and challenges. To utilize the full potential of this digital environment and to successfully participate in an online information society, digital reading skills are essential.
Marianne L. van Moort   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Dancing with the Stars: Does Playing in Elite Tournaments Affect Performance?

open access: yesOxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, Volume 85, Issue 1, Page 1-34, February 2023., 2023
Abstract This article documents spillover effects using participation in an elite international football tournament as a laboratory. Using a novel dataset from top 5 European football leagues, we find that participation in highly selective UEFA Champions League (UCL) generates large performance gains to participating teams in their domestic leagues ...
İlhan Güner, Mehdi Hamidi Sahneh
wiley   +1 more source

Pharmacy students can improve access to quality medicines information by editing Wikipedia articles

open access: yesBMC Medical Education, 2018
Background Pharmacy training programs commonly ask students to develop or edit drug monographs that summarize key information about new medicines as an academic exercise.
Dorie E. Apollonio   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Comparing the usage of global and local Wikipedias with focus on Swedish Wikipedia [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 2013
This report summarizes the results of a short-term student research project focused on the usage of Swedish Wikipedia. It is trying to answer the following question: To what extent (and why) do people from non-English language communities use the English Wikipedia instead of the one in their local language?
arxiv  

Detecting Biased Statements in Wikipedia

open access: yesThe Web Conference, 2018
Quality in Wikipedia is enforced through a set of editing policies and guidelines recommended for Wikipedia editors. Neutral point of view (NPOV) is one of the main principles in Wikipedia, which ensures that for controversial information all possible ...
C. Hube, B. Fetahu
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Transforming Wikipedia into an Ontology-based Information Retrieval Search Engine for Local Experts using a Third-Party Taxonomy [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 2015
Wikipedia is widely used for finding general information about a wide variety of topics. Its vocation is not to provide local information. For example, it provides plot, cast, and production information about a given movie, but not showing times in your local movie theatre.
arxiv  

Using Wikipedia Edits in Low Resource Grammatical Error Correction

open access: yesNUT@EMNLP, 2018
We develop a grammatical error correction (GEC) system for German using a small gold GEC corpus augmented with edits extracted from Wikipedia revision history.
Adriane Boyd
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Large Language Models With Contrastive Decoding Algorithm for Hallucination Mitigation in Low‐Resource Languages

open access: yesCAAI Transactions on Intelligence Technology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Neural machine translation (NMT) has advanced with deep learning and large‐scale multilingual models, yet translating low‐resource languages often lacks sufficient training data and leads to hallucinations. This often results in translated content that diverges significantly from the source text.
Zan Hongying   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

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