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Temporal characterization of the requests to Wikipedia [PDF]
, 2011 This paper presents an empirical study about the temporal patterns characterizing the requests submitted by users to Wikipedia. The study is based on the analysis of the log lines registered by the Wikimedia Foundation Squid servers after having sent ...
Herraiz Tabernero, Israel +3 more
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The free encyclopaedia that anyone can edit: the shifting values of Wikipedia editors [PDF]
, 2014 Wikipedia is often held up as an example of the potential of the internet to foster open, free and non-commercial collaboration. However such discourses often conflate these values without recognising how they play out in reality in a peer-production ...
Osman, Kim, Kim Osman
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Dynamics of Conflicts in Wikipedia
PLoS ONE, 2012 Supporting information ...
Yasseri, T +4 more
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Applying Wikipedia to Interactive Information Retrieval [PDF]
, 2010 There are many opportunities to improve the interactivity of information retrieval systems beyond the ubiquitous search box. One idea is to use knowledge bases—e.g.
Milne, David N.
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Clustering documents with active learning using Wikipedia [PDF]
, 2008 Wikipedia has been applied as a background knowledge base to various text mining problems, but very few attempts have been made to utilize it for document clustering. In this paper we propose to exploit the semantic knowledge in Wikipedia for clustering,
Ian H. Witten +7 more
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Engaging with Wikipedia via Article Creation [PDF]
, 2011 The dichotomy of Wikipedia: many love it, and many others love to hate it. While students may not entirely understand the process behind Wikipedia, they do know that they can get information fast (and generally of high quality).
Resnis, Eric
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SEED: a tool for disseminating systematic review data into Wikipedia
Systematic Reviews, 2017 Wikipedia, the free-content online encyclopaedia, contains many heavily accessed pages relating to healthcare. Cochrane systematic reviews contain much high-grade evidence but dissemination into Wikipedia has been slow.
Lena Schmidt +2 more
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Wikimedia and universities: contributing to the global commons in the Age of Disinformation
Insights: The UKSG Journal, 2020 In its first 30 years the world wide web has revolutionized the information environment. However, its impact has been negative as well as positive, through corporate misuse of personal data and due to its potential for enabling the spread of ...
Martin Poulter, Nick Sheppard
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2011 IEEE Third Int'l Conference on Privacy, Security, Risk and Trust and 2011 IEEE Third Int'l Conference on Social Computing, 2011 We present a new, efficient method for automatically detecting severe conflicts `edit wars' in Wikipedia and evaluate this method on six different language WPs. We discuss how the number of edits, reverts, the length of discussions, the burstiness of edits and reverts deviate in such pages from those following the general workflow, and argue that ...
Róbert Sumi +4 more
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Television & New Media, 2012 The task of this article is to analyze the political economy of Wikipedia. We discuss the specifics of Wikipedia’s mode of production. The basic principles of what we call the info-communist mode of production will be presented. Our analysis is grounded in Marxist philosophy and Marxist political economy, and is connected to the current discourse about
Sylvain Firer-Blaess, Christian Fuchs
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