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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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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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Wikis und die Wikipedia verstehen [PDF]
, 2021 Kaum eine Website wird so oft aufgerufen wie das Lexikon »Wikipedia«. Möglich wurde es durch das Wiki-Konzept, das zum Mitmachen einlädt. Wie aber funktioniert ein Wiki und wie kann man es für die eigenen Ziele nutzbar machen?
van Dijk, Ziko +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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Ranking of Wikipedia articles in search engines revisited: Fair ranking for reasonable quality? [PDF]
, 2010 This paper aims to review the fiercely discussed question of whether the ranking of Wikipedia articles in search engines is justified by the quality of the articles.
Lewandowski, Dirk, Spree, Ulrike
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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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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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Mining meaning from Wikipedia [PDF]
, 2008 Wikipedia is a goldmine of information; not just for its many readers, but also for the growing community of researchers who recognize it as a resource of exceptional scale and utility.
Legg, Catherine +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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