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The Anyone-Can-Edit Syndrome: Intercreation Stories of Three Featured Articles on Wikipedia

open access: yesNordicom 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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‘WP2Cochrane’, a tool linking Wikipedia to the Cochrane Library: Results of a bibliometric analysis evaluating article quality and importance

open access: yesHealth Informatics Journal, 2020
Medical information on English Wikipedia was accessed over 2 billion times in 2018. Our goal was to develop an automated system to assist Wikipedia volunteers to improve articles with high-quality sources from journals such as The Cochrane Library.
Arash Joorabchi   +2 more
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Students’ Attitudes Towards the Use of Wikipedia: A Teaching Tool and a Way to Modernize Teaching

open access: yesÁrea 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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Vandalism on Collaborative Web Communities: An Exploration of Editorial Behaviour in Wikipedia [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Modern online discussion communities allow people to contribute, sometimes anonymously. Such flexibility sometimes threatens the reputation and reliability of community-owned resources.
Alkharashi, Abdulwhab, Jose, Joemon
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With or without Wikipedia? Integrating Wikipedia into the Teaching Process in Estonian General Education Schools

open access: yesEducation Sciences, 2023
Today’s education has been shaped by the rapid development of digital technologies and easy accessibility to a large number of electronic sources. This has instigated a genuine need to change current teaching attitudes and practices.
Riina Reinsalu   +4 more
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Clustering documents with active learning using Wikipedia [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Wikipedia has been applied as a background knowledge base to various text mining problems, but very few attempts have been made to utilize it for document clustering. In this paper we propose to exploit the semantic knowledge in Wikipedia for clustering,
Frank, Eibe   +3 more
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Entre « communautés des contributeurs » et « société des usagers », les communs de masse

open access: yesTerminal, 2021
This article questions the sociological effects of the massification of a common from the analysis of the French version of Wikipedia. We use in particular the survey « Wikipedia 2015 » conducted by the GIS Marsouin in March 2015 among readers and ...
Léo JOUBERT
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Situating Wikipedia as a health information resource in various contexts: A scoping review.

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2020
BACKGROUND:Wikipedia's health content is the most frequently visited resource for health information on the internet. While the literature provides strong evidence for its high usage, a comprehensive literature review of Wikipedia's role within the ...
Denise A Smith
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Experimental data for computing semantic similarity between concepts using multiple inheritances in Wikipedia category graph

open access: yesData in Brief, 2020
This data article compiles the detailed and descriptive experimental data of Wikipedia-based semantic similarity approach called as Neighbourhood Aggregated Semantic Contribution (NASC), presented in Husain, et al. [1].
Muhammad Jawad Hussain   +3 more
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Mining Missing Hyperlinks from Human Navigation Traces: A Case Study of Wikipedia [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Hyperlinks are an essential feature of the World Wide Web. They are especially important for online encyclopedias such as Wikipedia: an article can often only be understood in the context of related articles, and hyperlinks make it easy to explore this ...
Clemesha A.   +7 more
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