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Students’ Perception of Wikipedia as an Academic Information Source
Indonesian Journal of Educational Research and Review, 2023 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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Readability of Wikipedia [PDF]
First Monday, 2012 Wikipedia is becoming widely acknowledged as a reliable source of encyclopedic information. However, concerns have been expressed about its readability. Wikipedia articles might be written in a language too difficult to be understood by most of its visitors. In this study, we apply the Flesch reading ease test to all available articles from the English
Teun Lucassen +2 more
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Learning to link with wikipedia
International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2008 This paper describes how to automatically cross-reference documents with Wikipedia: the largest knowledge base ever known. It explains how machine learning can be used to identify significant terms within unstructured text, and enrich it with links to ...
David N. Milne, I. Witten
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Evaluation of the Liver Disease Information in Baidu Encyclopedia and Wikipedia: Longitudinal Study
Journal of Medical Internet Research, 2021 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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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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Prerequisite Relations Annotation Tool: Annotation and analysis of educational relations in texts
Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.Abstract Relations between terms in texts have long been studied in linguistics and specialized knowledge domains, especially when occurring in educational materials like textbooks, where they play a crucial role in guiding instructional design and learning.
Chiara Alzetta, Ilaria Torre
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Etnoantropološki 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
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Does Wikipedia Matter? The Effect of Wikipedia on Tourist Choices [PDF]
SSRN 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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Citation Needed: A Taxonomy and Algorithmic Assessment of Wikipedia's Verifiability [PDF]
The Web Conference, 2019 Wikipedia is playing an increasingly central role on the web, and the policies its contributors follow when sourcing and fact-checking content affect million of readers.
Miriam Redi +3 more
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Children &Society, EarlyView., 2023 Abstract As a primary source for the early ages, picture books guide preschool children's gender perception through stories and illustrations. However, previous studies have criticised an overall gender inequality in children's picture books. Compared to the increasing attention on gender diversity in the UK picture book industry, there has been little
Yi Li, Melissa Terras, Yongning Li
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