Situating Wikipedia as a health information resource in various contexts: A scoping review.
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
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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Risposta a “Riflessioni sulla narrazione storica nelle voci di Wikipedia” [PDF]
What kind of relationship do the historical sciences have with Wikipedia? How should a reader approach Wikipedia articles dealing with history? What role will the upcoming “free encyclopedia” play in the study and teaching of history?
Iolanda Pensa
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Meet Students Where They Are: Centering Wikipedia in the Classroom
There is a common classroom refrain, “Don’t use Wikipedia; it’s unreliable.” Unfortunately, this simple dismissal of the world’s largest repository of information fails to engage students in a critical conversation about how knowledge within Wikipedia is
Diana E Park, Laurie M. Bridges
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Wikipedia as OER: the “Learning with Wikipedia” project
The paper presents the results of the “Learning with Wikipedia” project which involved 1200 students and 30 faculty members at the University of Padova in creating and expanding encyclopedia articles on various subject-specific topics. Teaching activities were developed which considered Wikipedia not so much as a container for Open Educational ...
Corrado Petrucco, Cinzia Ferranti
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From Adversaries to Allies? The Uneasy Relationship between Experts and the Wikipedia Community
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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Wikipedias inntog på kildelista – holdninger blant lærere og elever til Wikipedia i en skolekontekst
I denne artikkelen diskuterer vi hvordan elever og lærere forholder seg til et av verdens mest populære nettsteder, det digitale leksikonet Wikipedia.
Marte Blikstad-Balas, Tora Høgenes
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Students’ Perception of Wikipedia as an Academic Information Source
Wikipedia has become an integral part of education in recent times. But its credibility and its ability to serve as an efficient academic resource is still a matter of concern. This study aims to evaluate Bangladeshi students’ perception of Wikipedia as
Ahmed Shafkat Sunvy , Raiyan Bin Reza
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Italian Wikipedia and epilepsy: an infodemiological study of online information-seeking behavior [PDF]
Wikipedia is the most commonly accessed source of health information by both healthcare professionals and the lay public worldwide. We aimed to evaluate information-seeking behavior of Internet users searching the Italian Wikipedia for articles related ...
Bragazzi, Nicola Luigi+8 more
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Evaluation of the Liver Disease Information in Baidu Encyclopedia and Wikipedia: Longitudinal Study
BackgroundThe internet has changed the way of people acquiring health information. Previous studies have shown that Wikipedia is a reasonably reliable medical resource, and it has been ranked higher than other general websites in various search engines ...
Sun, Fei, Yang, Fuchun, Zheng, Shusen
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