Wikinformetrics: Construction and description of an open Wikipedia knowledge graph dataset for informetric purposes [PDF]
Wikipedia is one of the most visited websites in the world and is also a frequent subject of scientific research. However, the analytical possibilities of Wikipedia information have not yet been analyzed considering at the same time both a large volume of pages and attributes.
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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
doaj
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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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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New trends in the encyclopedic practice shaped by the digital age (based on Scholarpedia and Scholarly Community Еncyclopedia) [PDF]
The article describes the changes in the sphere of encyclopedia publishing (online encyclopedic practice) on the example of some notable Internet resources (Scholarpedia and Scholarly Community Encyclopedia) caused by the development of digital ...
Oleksandr Ishchenko
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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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The embeddings of entities in a large knowledge base (e.g., Wikipedia) are highly beneficial for solving various natural language tasks that involve real world knowledge.
Ikuya Yamada+6 more
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Predicting Economic Development using Geolocated Wikipedia Articles [PDF]
Progress on the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is hampered by a persistent lack of data regarding key social, environmental, and economic indicators, particularly in developing countries.
Evan Sheehan+7 more
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