Published in Journal of Digital Imaging
Wikipedia—an open-access online encyclopedia—contains a large number of medically relevant articles and images that may help supplement glossaries of radiology terms. We sought to determine the extent to which concepts from a large online radiology glossary developed as part of the Patient-Oriented Radiology Reporter (PORTER) initiative could be ma...
What types of social processes generate strong online co-production groups? How do these groups evolve to reach peak performance? How does the quality of the products generated by the groups co-vary with the evolution of their social systems over time? The paper analyzes the entire English and French Wikipedia editorial histories, from their incept...
This paper draws on the second part (qualitative phase) of an ongoing research on Information and Media Education (IME), in France. In the post-attack context, this education is regarded as a necessity. Recent official documents introduced interdisciplinary practical teachings, focusing on digital learning and linking information-communication and ...
When a major global news event occurs, such as the Easter bombings in Sri Lanka or the March shootings in New Zealand, Wikipedia contributors from around the world come together in a virtual newsroom to craft a narrative, followed closely by readers seeking the latest information. In any given month, the site’s most popular articles — both in numbe...
Published in Journal of Medical Internet Research
Background Wikipedia is one of the most consulted health resources in the world. Since the public is using health information from Wikipedia to make health care decisions, improving the quality of that health information is in the public interest. The open editable content design of Wikipedia and quality control processes in place provide an opport...
In this study, the Wikipedia page views for four selected topics, namely, education, the economy/finance, medicine, and nature/environment from 2016&ndash / 2018 are collected and the sample entropies of the three years&rsquo / page views are estimated and investigated using a short-time series multiscale entropy (sMSE) algorithm for a comprehensib...
This paper tackles the problem of information credibility assessment by users, focusing on Wikipedia articles. We consider both epistemic and non-epistemic criteria. We conducted a study using a questionnaire where 841 French young people aged from 11 to 25 years participated and we analysed the results considering the level of education as a varia...
We apply the Google matrix algorithms for analysis of interactions and influence of 37 cancer types, 203 cancer drugs and 195 world countries using the network of 5 416 537 English Wikipedia articles with all their directed hyperlinks. The PageRank algorithm provides the importance order of cancers which has 60% and 70% overlaps with the top 10 can...
Nous présentons ici l’application WIB (pour Wikipedia Integrated Browser) qui permet de naviguer dans les documents Wikipédia en même temps que dans les termes contenus dans ces documents et les catégories auxquelles ils appartiennent. Selon le(s) type(s) d’item(s) considéré(s) en entrée et en sortie (termes, documents ou catégories), la tâche réso...
Published in Journal of Medical Internet Research
Background Wikipedia, the multilingual encyclopedia, was founded in 2001 and is the world’s largest and most visited online general reference website. It is widely used by health care professionals and students. The inclusion of journal articles in Wikipedia is of scholarly interest, but the time taken for a journal article to be included in Wikipe...
