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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
Teun Lucassen +2 more
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Proceedings of the 15th international conference on World Wide Web, 2006 Wikipedia is the world's largest collaboratively edited source of encyclopaedic knowledge. But in spite of its utility, its content is barely machine-interpretable and only weakly structured. With Semantic MediaWiki we provide an extension that enables wiki-users to semantically annotate wiki pages, based on which the wiki contents can be browsed ...
Max Völkel +4 more
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Wikipedia editing dynamics [PDF]
Physical Review E, 2015 A model for the probabilistic function followed in Wikipedia edition is presented and compared with simulations and real data. It is argued that the probability to edit is proportional to the editor's number of previous editions (preferential attachment), to the editor's fitness and to an ageing factor. Using these simple ingredients, it is possible to
Gandica, Y., Carvalho, J., Aidos, F. S.
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Accuracy and completeness of drug information in Wikipedia: a comparison with standard textbooks of pharmacology. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 The online resource Wikipedia is increasingly used by students for knowledge acquisition and learning. However, the lack of a formal editorial review and the heterogeneous expertise of contributors often results in skepticism by educators whether ...
Jona Kräenbring +8 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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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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An Efficient Approach for Measuring Semantic Similarity Combining WordNet and Wikipedia
IEEE Access, 2020 The measurement of semantic similarity between concepts is an important research topic in natural language processing. In the past, several approaches for measuring the semantic similarity between concepts have been proposed based on WordNet or Wikipedia.
Fei Li +5 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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Is Wikipedia Inefficient? Modelling Effort and Participation in Wikipedia [PDF]
2013 46th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 2013 Concerns have been raised about the decreased ability of Wikipedia to recruit editors and in to harness the effort of contributors to create new articles and improve existing articles. But, as [1], [2] explained, in collective projects, in the initial stage of the project, people are few and efforts costly; in the diffusion phase, the number of ...
Kevin Crowston +2 more
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Citations to Wikipedia in Chemistry Journals: A Preliminary Study.
Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship, 2011 Wikipedia has been the subject of an increasing number of studies. Many of these have focused on the quality of Wikipedia articles and the use of Wikipedia by students. Little research has focused on the use of Wikipedia by scholars. This study helps to
Bradley Brazzeal
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