Fifteen years ago, I conducted a small study testing the error-correction tendency of Wikipedia. Not only is Wikipedia different now than it was then, the community that maintains it is different. Despite the crudity of that study’s methods, it is natural to wonder what the result would be now. So I repeated the earlier study and found surprisingly...
Applying a critical-constructivist approach, 21 semi-structured interviews conducted from June to October 2021 were analyzed thematically. Qualitative analysis suggests that users reported that Wikipedia’s health content can facilitate personal agency, is familiar and convenient to access, and that individuals’ trust in Wikipedia is contextual, con...
Published in Conservation biology : the journal of the Society for Conservation Biology
环境监测正在日益向能够实时描述变化的系统转变。特别是在生态学方面, 一系列挑战阻碍了开发生物多样性变化或生态系统服务供给等特征的实时监测工具。保护文化组学是一个关注人与自然相互作用的领域, 它完全存在于数字世界, 因此可以很好地展示监测如何向实时平台网络的方向发展。本研究分析了与保护文化组学实时监测平台发展相关的一系列考虑因素, 并为物种关注度指数 (Species Awareness Index) 设计了一个接近实时监测的平台。物种关注度指数是一个关于生物多样性意识变化的全球指数, 来自维基百科上物种页面浏览量的变化情况。这个平台将每月自动更新, 以接近实时的方式运作 (https://joemillard.shinyapps.io/Real_time_SAI/) 。我们计划通过一个独立于...
Published in Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics
Introduction Altmetrics have been demonstrated as a promising tool for analyzing scientific communication on social media. Nevertheless, its application for research evaluation remains underdeveloped, despite the advancement of research in the study of diverse scientific interactions. Methods This paper develops a method for applying altmetrics in ...
La investigación descrita en este artículo tiene como objetivo verificar la viabilidad de usar Wikidata y Wikipedia como fuente para identificar un canon literario universal. Para ello, primero se sitúan ambos proyectos de la fundación Wikimedia en el contexto de los datos sobre obras literarias. La metodología utilizada se basa en la construcción ...
Published in Frontiers in Big Data
Wikipedia is an open-source online encyclopedia and one of the most-read sources of online health information. Likewise, Wikipedia page views have also been analyzed to inform public health services and policies. The present review analyzed 29 studies utilizing Wikipedia page views for health research. Most reviewed studies were published in recent...
Digitalizirani slovenski rokopisi se nahajajo na trehWikimedijinih spletiščih: posnetki ali skeni v zbirki Commons (slov. Zbirka), prepisi na Wikiviru, enciklopedični opisi pa na Wikipediji. Prosto dostopnost in uporabnost rokopisom na wikijih zagotavlja licenca Creative Commons, restriktivna domača zakonodaja (avtorska, kulturnodediščinska in zase...
Published in Journal of nursing scholarship : an official publication of Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing
The increasing number of people who use drugs (PWUDs) can be attributed to the rising online sales of drugs and other related substances. Information on drugs and drug markets has also become easily accessible in web-search engines and social media. Aside from providing direct care, nurses have essential roles in preventing substance use disorder. ...
Published in Frontiers in Big Data
Several studies have used Wikipedia (WP) data-set to analyse worldwide human preferences by languages. However, those studies could suffer from bias related to exceptional social circumstances. Any massive event promoting exceptional editions of WP can be defined as a source of bias. In this article, we follow a procedure for detecting outliers. Ou...
The purpose of this study was to identify certain experiences among Swedish scholars towards their use of Wikipedia. The goal was to create a deeper understanding of how audiences with academic professions experience Wikipedia as a place to share knowledge with other individuals. This study was done through the perspectives of the ANT theory (Latou...
