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Journal of the Canadian Health Libraries Association, 2023 Background: Academic institutions and libraries are familiar with Wikipedia. There is growing momentum in higher education for using Wikipedia as a learning tool in various contexts.
Denise Smith
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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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A Graph-structured Dataset for Wikipedia Research [PDF]
, 2019 Wikipedia is a rich and invaluable source of information. Its central place on the Web makes it a particularly interesting object of study for scientists.
Aspert, Nicolas +3 more
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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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Using Wikipedia Assignments to Teach Critical Thinking and Scientific Writing in STEM Courses
Frontiers in Education, 2022 While many instructors have reservations against Wikipedia use in academic settings, editing Wikipedia teaches students valuable writing, editing, and critical thinking skills.
Jolie A. L. Gareis +15 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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When to cross Over? Cross-language linking using Wikipedia for VideoCLEF 2009 [PDF]
, 2010 We describe Dublin City University (DCU)'s participation in the VideoCLEF 2009 Linking Task. Two approaches were implemented using the Lemur information retrieval toolkit.
Gyarmati, Ágnes, Jones, Gareth J.F.
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Citations to Wikipedia in Chemistry Journals: A Preliminary Study.
Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship, 2011 Wikipedia has been the subject of an increasing number of studies. Many of these have focused on the quality of Wikipedia articles and the use of Wikipedia by students. Little research has focused on the use of Wikipedia by scholars. This study helps to
Bradley Brazzeal
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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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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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