Are you interested in improving mental health information available on Wikipedia? Do you want to utilize your librarian research skills towards making Wikipedia a better, evidence-based resource? Have you always wanted to participate in or learn how to host your own edit-a-thon? In preparation for the National Network of Libraries of Medicine Fall ...
There is a growing trend in libraries to engage their communities with information and open data by holding Wikipedia edit-a-thons. During these events, participants learn about this widely used online resource through hands-on editing of articles, including improving citations and adding new facts. The purpose of this poster is to report on the Na...
A very common problem in designing caching/prefetching systems, distribution networks, search engines, and web-crawlers is determining how long a given content lasts before being updated, i.e., its update frequency. Indeed, while some content is not frequently updated (e.g., videos), in other cases revisions periodically invalidate contents. In thi...
Die Masterarbeit Bildinventare und konkurrierende Termini im Flüchtlingsdiskurs in der Wikipedia: Eine kontrastive Diskursanalyse der deutschen und slowenischen Sprachversion befasst sich mit der kontrastiven diskurslinguistischen Analyse ausgewählter Wikipedia-Artikel der slowenischen und deutschen Sprachversion zum Thema Flüchtlingsdiskurs. Der t...
As one of the most important knowledge sources of TRIZ, the collection of Physical effects is currently searched in a very basic way. In order to enhance its use, different proposals have been brought to the community to classify effects into different categories. Among them, a rule-based approach classified the collection of physical effects into ...
Published in Surgical and radiologic anatomy : SRA
Wikipedia is a popular online encyclopedia generating over 5.4 billion visits per month, and it is also a common resource for the general public and professionals for medical information. The goal of this study is to determine the accuracy and completeness of Wikipedia as a resource for musculoskeletal anatomy. The origin, insertion, innervation, a...
Published in BMC Bioinformatics
*Background Consisting of dictated free-text documents such as discharge summaries, medical narratives are widely used in medical natural language processing. Relationships between anatomical entities and human body parts are crucial for building medical text mining applications. To achieve this, we establish a mapping system consisting of a Wikipe...
On Wikipedia, articles about various topics can be created and edited independently in each language version. Therefore, the quality of information about the same topic depends on the language. Any interested user can improve an article and that improvement may depend on the popularity of the article. The goal of this study is to show what topics a...
There is a growing trend of libraries engaging their communities with information and open data by holding Wikipedia “edit-a-thons.” During the events, participants learn about the culture and norms of this widely used online resource by doing hands-on editing of articles, improving citations and adding new facts. The National Network of Libraries ...
Published in Social Network Analysis and Mining
We define network-based indicators to characterize diversity of Wikipedia teams and contributing users. A team of Wikipedia users is diverse to the extent that its members edit different articles. An individual user has diverse interests to the extent that she contributes to articles that are not normally co-edited by the same users, i. e., if she ...
