Motivations for contributing to health-related articles on Wikipedia: an interview study. [PDF]
Background: Wikipedia is one of the most accessed sources of health information online. The current English-language Wikipedia contains more than 28,000 articles pertaining to health.
Farič N, Potts HW.
europepmc +5 more sources
Les institutions culturelles en coopération avec les communautés en ligne. L’exemple du Wikipédien en résidence [PDF]
Le web social permet de nouvelles interactions avec les usagers des institutions culturelles dont le recours à des communautés en ligne (Flickr, Wikimedia) afin de promouvoir et enrichir leurs collections.
Rey-Bellet, Guillaume
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Digital museum collections and social media: ethical considerations of ownership and use [PDF]
This paper examines the role of digital collections and digital information in the democratisation process of museums. The paper focuses on ethical and ownership issues regarding Wikipedia’s online encyclopaedia initiative to widen access to digital ...
Bayne +14 more
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The Wiki Learning Project: Wikipedia as an Open Learning Environment [PDF]
Los enfoques predominantes en el sistema educativo tradicional circunscriben las posibilidades de aprendizaje a entornos formales y cerrados. Sin embargo, las tecnologías móviles y plataformas digitales están transformando este paradigma, expandiendo ...
Carli Álvarez, Arianna +1 more
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A History of Collaboration, a Future in Crowdsourcing: Positive Impacts of Cooperation on British Librarianship [PDF]
This article looks at the varying definitions and usage of the term ‘crowdsourcing,’ including those that insist the term may only be applied to online activities.
Ellis, Sally
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Wikipedia as informal self-education for clinical decision-making in medical practice [PDF]
Background For almost any topic, a Wikipedia page will appear among the first ten items of a search online. Wikipedia is also a site whose quality and reliability has been called into question.
Azzam A +30 more
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Spartan Daily, May 7, 2014 [PDF]
Volume 142, Issue 39https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/spartandaily/1498/thumbnail ...
San Jose State University, School of Journalism and Mass Communications
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Evolution of Privacy Loss in Wikipedia
The cumulative effect of collective online participation has an important and adverse impact on individual privacy. As an online system evolves over time, new digital traces of individual behavior may uncover previously hidden statistical links between ...
Almeida R. +4 more
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Stepping Beyond Libraries: The Changing Orientation in Global GLAM-Wiki [PDF]
Wikipedia and its community has seen an increasingly close relationship between library communities, with both communities sharing overlapping values and practices related to public access to knowledge, a desire for openness, defence of freedom of speech,
Alexander D. Stinson +2 more
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Leveraging the Power of Wikipedia and Wikidata for your Library [PDF]
Wikipedia is one of the most popular sources of information on the internet. As information professionals, we can change information on Wikipedia to be more accurate and complete.
Helps, Rachel, Lewis, Nicole
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