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Health 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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Entre « communautés des contributeurs » et « société des usagers », les communs de masse
Terminal, 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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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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SSRN Electronic Journal, 2017 AbstractWe document a causal impact of online user‐generated information on real‐world economic outcomes. In particular, we conduct a randomized field experiment to test whether additional content on Wikipedia pages about cities affects tourists' choices of overnight visits.
Marit Hinnosaar +3 more
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Education 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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New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia, 2021 This paper analyses the online encyclopaedia Wikipedia using Michel Foucault’s (1926–1984) concept of heterotopia. In Foucault’s writings, heterotopias are both similar to and distinct from the conditions that give rise to them. The paper undertakes a case study of one entry on Wikipedia (the entry for the “Episteme”) focusing primarily on the main ...
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Quantitative Science Studies, 2021 Wikipedia’s content is based on reliable and published sources. To this date, relatively little is known about what sources Wikipedia relies on, in part because extracting citations and identifying cited sources is challenging.
Harshdeep Singh +2 more
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The Evolution of Genre in Wikipedia [PDF]
Journal for Language Technology and Computational Linguistics, 2009 This paper presents an overview of the ways in which genres, or structural forms, develop in a community of practice, in this case, Wikipedia. Firstly, we collected data by performing a small search task in the Wikipedia search engine (powered by Lucene) to locate articles related to global car manufacturers, for example, British Leyland, Ferrari and ...
Malcolm Clark +2 more
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Situating Wikipedia as a health information resource in various contexts: A scoping review.
PLoS 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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Wikipédia à tous les étages. Usages de l’encyclopédie pour l’enseignement en géographie
EchoGéo, 2021 Wikipedia has always been a research object in several disciplinary fields: computer science, linguistics, geography, political science... Taking Wikipedia as a research object has never been a problem, but using Wikipedia for teaching, especially for ...
Hadrien Commenges
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