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Students’ Attitudes Towards the Use of Wikipedia: A Teaching Tool and a Way to Modernize Teaching
Área Abierta, 2021 This paper presents a research on students’ attitudes towards the use of Wikipedia in teaching. The sample was comprised of students from the Pedagogical Faculty in Vranje, a higher education institution affiliated with the University of Niš, Serbia ...
Đorđe Stakić +3 more
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Using Wikipedia Assignments to Teach Critical Thinking and Scientific Writing in STEM Courses
Frontiers in Education, 2022 While many instructors have reservations against Wikipedia use in academic settings, editing Wikipedia teaches students valuable writing, editing, and critical thinking skills.
Jolie A. L. Gareis +15 more
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JLIS.it, 2018 The Wikipedia Library è un progetto globale sostenuto dalla Wikimedia Foundation che punta a fornire servizi bibliotecari e di reference per i redattori e i lettori di Wikipedia, rendendo possibile l’accesso diretto ai riferimenti bibliografici che ...
Jake Orlowitz
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, 2017 Wikipedia is one of the most popular sites on the Web, with millions of users relying on it to satisfy a broad range of information needs every day.
DeMaio T. J. +11 more
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Journal of the Canadian Health Libraries Association, 2023 Background: Academic institutions and libraries are familiar with Wikipedia. There is growing momentum in higher education for using Wikipedia as a learning tool in various contexts.
Denise Smith
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When to cross Over? Cross-language linking using Wikipedia for VideoCLEF 2009 [PDF]
, 2010 We describe Dublin City University (DCU)'s participation in the VideoCLEF 2009 Linking Task. Two approaches were implemented using the Lemur information retrieval toolkit.
Gyarmati, Ágnes, Jones, Gareth J.F.
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Readability of Wikipedia [PDF]
First Monday, 2012 Wikipedia is becoming widely acknowledged as a reliable source of encyclopedic information. However, concerns have been expressed about its readability. Wikipedia articles might be written in a language too difficult to be understood by most of its visitors. In this study, we apply the Flesch reading ease test to all available articles from the English
Lucassen, T. +2 more
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PLoS ONE, 2020 The online encyclopedia Wikipedia strives for objectivity and neutrality. However, Wikipedia also provides articles about negative events (e.g., earthquakes, terrorist attacks) that likely elicit strong, negative emotions.
Hannah Greving, Joachim Kimmerle
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A Graph-structured Dataset for Wikipedia Research [PDF]
, 2019 Wikipedia is a rich and invaluable source of information. Its central place on the Web makes it a particularly interesting object of study for scientists.
Aspert, Nicolas +3 more
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The Anyone-Can-Edit Syndrome: Intercreation Stories of Three Featured Articles on Wikipedia
Nordicom Review, 2020 The user-generated wiki encyclopedia Wikipedia was launched in January 2001 by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger. Wikipedia has become the world's largest wiki encyclopedia, and behind many of its entries are interesting stories of creation, or rather ...
Mattus Maria
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