Sun, Fei Yang, Fuchun Zheng, Shusen
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Journal of medical Internet research
The 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. Baidu Encyclopedia is one of the most popular encyclopedia websites in China. However, no studies have sho...
Huisman, Martijn Joye, Stijn Biltereyst, Daniël
Wikipedia is one of the most popular online sources of information on a wide range of topics, including health and medical affairs. While a large body of research examines Wikipedia's factual accuracy, few studies look at user perceptions and the actual use of the online encyclopaedia. Previous work has mostly explored students' use of Wikipedia, b...
Mavridis, George
Wikipedia consists of an online encyclopedia created by users worldwide who collaborate to distribute knowledge and edit information in real-time. Although Wikipedia's accuracy has been a disputable and debatable issue in many recent studies, little academic research has systematically addressed how users interact with the platform's storytelling t...
Aimar, Lucas Pagola, Lila Zanotti, Agustín
The article analyzes three editathons in Wikipedia, in its edition in Spanish. These are collective and simultaneous edition events on the free encyclopedia, aimed at improving coverage of gender, local content and underrepresented groups. The experiences were carried out in Córdoba, Argentina, during 2018 and 2019. The cases are: 1) Editatona de M...
Le Goff-Pronost, Myriam Jullien, Nicolas Dang Nguyen, Godefroy
Background: the economic model of Wikipedia is based on donations. What would happen if these donations were to decrease and no longer covered all the costs borne by the Wikimedia Foundation?Objectives: we propose to measure, through a contingent valuation model, the willingness to pay Wikipedia users for free access without advertising (traditiona...
Michalski, A. I. Zharinov, G. M. Anisimov, V. N.
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Advances in Gerontology
AbstractThe applicability of the data on the mean age of death (MAD) of people presented on Wikipedia to determine the survival patterns with respect to professional occupations is considered. The results of previous studies are described. Features of these data related to censorship and the selective nature of their collection are discussed. The p...
Okoli, Chitu
Dans cette synthèse des travaux pour l’Habilitation à diriger des recherches, je commence par une introduction détaillée de mon profil de chercheur où je présente mes principaux axes de recherche. Puis, dans les chapitres principaux de cette synthèse, je me concentre sur l’un de ces axes en présentant des cadres de recherche pour le contenu ouvert ...
Kancheva, Z. Radev, I.
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Cybernetics and Information Technologies
This paper reports on the first steps in the creation of linked data through the mapping between the synsets of BTB-WordNet and the articles in Bulgarian Wikipedia. The task of expanding the BTB-WordNet with encyclopaedic knowledge is done by mapping its synsets to Wikipedia articles with many MWEs found in the articles and subjected to further ana...
Baya-Laffite, Nicolas Beaude, Boris Maitre, Ogier
Wikipédia est devenue une infrastructure de connaissances de référence. En tant que principale source de connaissances produite dans une démarche collaborative et l’un des sites Internet les plus visités, elle constitue non seulement un objet d'étude primordial, mais aussi de plus en plus une ressource pour la recherche en études numériques. Bien q...
Gozzi, Nicolò Tizzani, Michele Starnini, Michele Ciulla, Fabio Paolotti, Daniela Panisson, André Perra, Nicola
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Journal of Medical Internet Research
Background The exposure and consumption of information during epidemic outbreaks may alter people’s risk perception and trigger behavioral changes, which can ultimately affect the evolution of the disease. It is thus of utmost importance to map the dissemination of information by mainstream media outlets and the public response to this information....
