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Wikipedia, an international project that uses Wiki software to collaboratively create an encyclopaedia, is becoming more and more popular. Everyone can directly edit articles and every edit is recorded.
Voss, Jakob
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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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Intercultural analysis of value orientations of Wikipedia authors [PDF]
Background. A wide circle of multidisciplinary researchers share interest in motivation factors of Wikipedians, i.e. virtual volunteers, members of the online world’s largest online encyclopedia «Wikipedia», who consolidate personal resources to manage ...
Evgeniy A. Bryzgalin
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Multilinguals and Wikipedia editing [PDF]
This article analyzes one month of edits to Wikipedia in order to examine the role of users editing multiple language editions (referred to as multilingual users). Such multilingual users may serve an important function in diffusing information across different language editions of the encyclopedia, and prior work has suggested this could reduce the ...
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Wikipedia's first twenty years: how what began as an experiment in collaboration became the world's most popular reference work. We have been looking things up in Wikipedia for twenty years.
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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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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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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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Using the Ukrainian Wikipedia in public relations
In the second decade of the XXI century the electronic format began dominating in the world encyclopedic business. The paper version of Encyclopеdia Britannicа has completed its 244-year history with the 32-volume edition of 2010, and since then its ...
Illia Afanasiev
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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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