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Embracing Wikipedia as a research tool for law: to Wikipedia or not to Wikipedia?
The Law Teacher, 2011 Useful aspects of Wikipedia should be embraced as a research tool. Arguments are based upon a consideration of Wikipedia's purpose; policies and controlling mechanisms; commentator views on and academic use of Wikipedia as a teaching and learning tool; the fact that empirical research has found students will use Wikipedia.
Barnett, Eola, Baer, Roslyn
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Área Abierta, 2021 Partiendo de la dimensión enciclopédica de Wikipedia –marcada por la amplitud, variedad y ordenación sistemática de sus contenidos–, esta investigación busca identificar los campos de conocimiento presentes en ella y analizar cuantitativamente esa ...
José Mario Fernández Montes +3 more
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Wikipedia page views for health research: a review
Frontiers in Big Data, 2023 Wikipedia is an open-source online encyclopedia and one of the most-read sources of online health information. Likewise, Wikipedia page views have also been analyzed to inform public health services and policies.
Rowalt Alibudbud
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Defying easy categorization: Wikipedia as primary, secondary and tertiary resource
Insights: The UKSG Journal, 2023 Wikipedia is the world’s largest information source, used daily by millions of individuals around the world – yet such is its uniqueness and dominance that rarely is the question asked: what exactly is Wikipedia?
Caroline Ball
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Analyzing Wikipedia Citations to Iranian English-language Journals approved by the Iranian Ministry of Science, Research and Technology [PDF]
علوم و فنون مدیریت اطلاعات, 2022 Objectives: This research aimed to investigate Wikipedia citations to the Iranian English-language journals approved by the Iranian Ministry of Science, Research and Technology (MSRT).
Hamidreza Davoudi, Alireza Noruzi
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From Adversaries to Allies? The Uneasy Relationship between Experts and the Wikipedia Community
She Ji: The Journal of Design, Economics and Innovation, 2021 As Wikipedia approaches its 20th anniversary, this article explores the complex relationship between the Wikipedia world and the world of academia.
Piotr Konieczny
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Łódzkie Studia Etnograficzne, 2020 The article presents the general idea of Wikimedia education and the situation of educational programs based on Wiki(p)media tools and capabilities in four countries.
Nebojša Ratković +3 more
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Proceedings of the 2006 international symposium on Wikis, 2006 Wikipedia is the world's largest collaboratively edited source of encyclopaedic knowledge. But its contents are barely machine-interpretable. Structural knowledge, e. g. about how concepts are interrelated, can neither be formally stated nor automatically processed.
Haller, H +3 more
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An inferior source? Quantitatively analysing the production and revision of five technology-enhanced learning-related terms on Wikipedia [PDF]
Research in Learning Technology, 2018 This article analyses five technology-enhanced learning-related terms on Wikipedia, assessing their usefulness in relation to academic journal articles concerning the same terms.
Michael Flavin, Katerina Hulova
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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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