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Embracing Wikipedia as a research tool for law: to Wikipedia or not to Wikipedia?
The Law Teacher, 2011Useful 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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American Economic Review, 2012
This study empirically examines whether Wikipedia has a neutral point of view. It develops a method for measuring the slant of 28 thousand articles about US politics. In its earliest years, Wikipedia's political entries lean Democrat on average. The slant diminishes during Wikipedia's decade of experience.
Shane Greenstein, Feng Zhu
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This study empirically examines whether Wikipedia has a neutral point of view. It develops a method for measuring the slant of 28 thousand articles about US politics. In its earliest years, Wikipedia's political entries lean Democrat on average. The slant diminishes during Wikipedia's decade of experience.
Shane Greenstein, Feng Zhu
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Is Wikipedia usable for the blind?
Proceedings of the 2008 international cross-disciplinary conference on Web accessibility (W4A), 2008Today wikis are becoming increasingly widespread, and offer great benefits in a variety of collaborative environments. Therefore, to be universally valuable, wiki systems should be easy to use for anyone, regardless of ability. This paper describes obstacles that a blind user may encounter when interacting via screen reader with Wikipedia, and offers ...
Buzzi M, Leporini B
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Wikipedia and neurological disorders
Journal of Clinical Neuroscience, 2015Our aim was to evaluate Wikipedia page visits in relation to the most common neurological disorders by determining which factors are related to peaks in Wikipedia searches for these conditions. Millions of people worldwide use the internet daily as a source of health information.
Francesco Brigo +5 more
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ACM SIGIR Forum, 2006
Wikipedia is a well known free content, multilingual encyclopedia written collaboratively by contributors around the world. Anybody can edit an article using a wiki markup language that offers a simplified alternative to HTML. This encyclopedia is composed of millions of articles in different languages.
Denoyer, Ludovic, Gallinari, Patrick
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Wikipedia is a well known free content, multilingual encyclopedia written collaboratively by contributors around the world. Anybody can edit an article using a wiki markup language that offers a simplified alternative to HTML. This encyclopedia is composed of millions of articles in different languages.
Denoyer, Ludovic, Gallinari, Patrick
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2021
Wikipedia is the world’s largest free online encyclopedia and a prominent feature of the emerging media landscape. Ever since the project began in 2001, the site has been viewed as one of the most successful instantiations of the new ‘participatory’ web and as a clear illustration of the democratising potential of networked digital communication tools ...
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Wikipedia is the world’s largest free online encyclopedia and a prominent feature of the emerging media landscape. Ever since the project began in 2001, the site has been viewed as one of the most successful instantiations of the new ‘participatory’ web and as a clear illustration of the democratising potential of networked digital communication tools ...
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Kellogg School of Management Cases, 2017
By 2006, Wikipedia had achieved the type of success that only a handful of young organizations could ever dream of reaching. It had grown from almost nothing in 2001 to become one of the consistently highest ranked and most visited sites on the Internet.
Michelle Devereux, Shane Greenstein
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By 2006, Wikipedia had achieved the type of success that only a handful of young organizations could ever dream of reaching. It had grown from almost nothing in 2001 to become one of the consistently highest ranked and most visited sites on the Internet.
Michelle Devereux, Shane Greenstein
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Semantic Stability in Wikipedia
2016In this paper we assess the semantic stability of Wikipedia by investigating the dynamics of Wikipedia articles’ revisions over time. In a semantically stable system, articles are infrequently edited, whereas in unstable systems, article content changes more frequently.
Stanisavljevic, Darko +4 more
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2010
Wikipedia articles contain, besides free text, various types of structured information in the form of wiki markup. The type of wiki content that is most valuable for search are Wikipedia infoboxes, which display an article’s most relevant facts as a table of attribute-value pairs on the top right-hand side of the Wikipedia page.
Hahn, Rasmus +7 more
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Wikipedia articles contain, besides free text, various types of structured information in the form of wiki markup. The type of wiki content that is most valuable for search are Wikipedia infoboxes, which display an article’s most relevant facts as a table of attribute-value pairs on the top right-hand side of the Wikipedia page.
Hahn, Rasmus +7 more
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