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Biblioteche e Wikipedia: prove di collaborazione [PDF]
, 2013 Description of possibile cooperation activities between librarians and ...
Giaccai, Susanna (5268928) +1 more
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Does Wikipedia Matter? The Effect of Wikipedia on Tourist Choices [PDF]
, 2016 We document a causal influence of online user-generated information on real-world economic outcomes. In particular, we conduct a randomized field experiment to test whether additional information on Wikipedia about cities affects tourists’ choices of overnight visits.
Marit Hinnosaar +3 more
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Wikipedia as OER: the “Learning with Wikipedia” project
Je-LKS: Journal of E-Learning and Knowledge Society, 2020 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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An effective, low-cost measure of semantic relatedness obtained from Wikipedia links [PDF]
, 2008 This paper describes a new technique for obtaining measures of semantic relatedness. Like other recent approaches, it uses Wikipedia to provide structured world knowledge about the terms of interest.
Ian H. Witten +3 more
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From Diderot’s Encyclopedia to Wales’ Wikipedia: A brief history of collecting and sharing knowledge [PDF]
Časopis Ksio, 2018 Collecting and sharing knowledge are activities which are almost as important as creating knowledge. Yet, the ideas of collecting and sharing knowledge have changed over time, reflecting society’s needs.
Miloš Todorović
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Topic indexing with Wikipedia [PDF]
, 2008 Wikipedia article names can be utilized as a controlled vocabulary for identifying the main topics in a document. Wikipedia’s 2M articles cover the terminology of nearly any document collection, which permits controlled indexing in the absence of ...
Medelyan, Olena +2 more
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Mining domainspecific thesauri from wikipedia: A case study [PDF]
, 2006 Domain-specific thesauri are high-cost, highmaintenance, high-value knowledge structures. We show how the classic thesaurus structure of terms and links can be mined automatically from Wikipedia.
Olena Medelyan +6 more
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The Elephant in the Room: A Place for Wikipedia in Higher Education?
Nordlit: 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
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Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on World Wide Web Companion - WWW '17 Companion, 2017 While studies have shown that Wikipedia articles exhibit quality that is comparable to conventional encyclopedias, research still proves that Wikipedia, overall, is prone to many different types of Neutral Point of View (NPOV) violations that are explicitly or implicitly caused by bias from its editors.
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Prompt, 2023 This article details a collaborative editing assignment that asks students to analyze and assess editorial contributions made to Wikipedia. This project not only provides students an opportunity to apply their understanding of grammar and style concepts ...
Tara Propper
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