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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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The distorted mirror of Wikipedia: a quantitative analysis of Wikipedia coverage of academics [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Activity of modern scholarship creates online footprints galore. Along with traditional metrics of research quality, such as citation counts, online images of researchers and institutions increasingly matter in evaluating academic impact, decisions about
Samoilenko, Anna, Yasseri, Taha
core   +2 more sources

Does Wikipedia Matter? The Effect of Wikipedia on Tourist Choices [PDF]

open access: yesSSRN Electronic Journal, 2015
We analyze the impact of information on Wikipedia on tourists' choices for travel destinations. Our results suggest a strong observational correlation between the amount of content on Wikipedia and tourist overnight stays. We propose a check of whether this correlation is causal.
Olga Slivko   +4 more
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The Elephant in the Room: A Place for Wikipedia in Higher Education?

open access: yesNordlit: Tidsskrift i litteratur og kultur, 2012
The article departs from a pilot survey among Norwegian teacher students that maps their usage, skills and attitudes in relation to the web based encyclopedia Wikipedia.
Hilde Brox
doaj   +1 more source

Wikipedia

open access: yesCulture Unbound, 2014
Above my desk is a quote by Albert Einstein: “Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics; I can assure you that mine are still greater.” One of Einstein’s problems, of course, was that since he was a pioneer, there were not many who could give him the correct answers. Wikipedia is in some ways in the same position.
openaire   +3 more sources

Hypercanines: Not just for sabertooths

open access: yesThe Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract Hypercanines are here defined as hypertrophied caniniform teeth, that is, canine teeth that are elongated to serve specific functions in different clades of mammals and their synapsid ancestors. This article presents an overview of the occurrence of hypercanines, their growth, and their function across a broad range of clades.
Lars Werdelin
wiley   +1 more source

A Wikipedia Literature Review [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
This paper was originally designed as a literature review for a doctoral dissertation focusing on Wikipedia.
Martin, Owen S.
core  

Essential work, invisible workers: The role of digital curation in COVID‐19 Open Science

open access: yesJournal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, Volume 76, Issue 4, Page 703-717, April 2025.
Abstract In this paper, we examine the role digital curation practices and practitioners played in facilitating open science (OS) initiatives amid the COVID‐19 pandemic. In Summer 2023, we conducted a content analysis of available information regarding 50 OS initiatives that emerged—or substantially shifted their focus—between 2020 and 2022 to address ...
Irene V. Pasquetto   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Wikipedia as a Battleground for an Exclusive Ethnic Appropriation of Cultural Heritage: Who Does Avdo Međedović Belong to?

open access: yesEtnoantropološki Problemi, 2023
Wikipedia, consisting of articles from various areas of knowledge, drawn from natural and social sciences as well as from different domains of culture, is one of the most widely read webpages.
Slaviša Raković
doaj   +1 more source

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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