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Why We Read Wikipedia
2017
Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on World Wide Web - WWW '17
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Although it is crucial to understand what exactly these needs are in order to be able to meet them, little is currently known about why users visit Wikipedia. ...
Then, we quantify the prevalence of these use cases via a large-scale user survey conducted on live Wikipedia with almost 30,000 responses. ...
Mansurov, Jon Robson, and Sam Smith for running the surveys on Wikipedia; and Aeryn Palmer for creating the privacy statements for this research. ...
doi:10.1145/3038912.3052716
dblp:conf/www/SingerL0ZWSL17
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Analyze This: Usage and Your Collection
2014
Against the Grain
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"It's like a game -teachers tell us not to use Wikipedia, and -wink, winkwe say we won't, but we all know we will!" ...
"I skim the page and read little bits here and there -selectively" said one college sophomore, "and because I can't take the time to read everything, I just look [for my search terms] and read those bits ...
doi:10.7771/2380-176x.6886
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Why the World Reads Wikipedia: Beyond English Speakers
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2018
arXiv
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Despite this global readership, little is known about why users read Wikipedia's various language editions. ...
Third, we show that certain Wikipedia use cases are more common in countries with certain socio-economic characteristics; e.g., in-depth reading of Wikipedia articles is substantially more common in countries ...
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS We thank the following Wikipedia users for translating the survey to their languages and acting as our points of contact in their language communities: _ , Amire80, Antanana, AWossink, ...
arXiv:1812.00474v1
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Wikipedia as Science Communication: A Step-by-Step Guide
2021
Zenodo
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The Wikipedia community has become a source of information for a broad and global public. ...
Engaging with an article: check out the backstage area After reading the Wikipedia article, we had a few ideas for editing based on the journal article. ...
We tried to balance such a one-sided evaluation by providing further information on why open peer-review may help countering predatory journals. ...
doi:10.5281/zenodo.5111710
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Wikipedia access and contribution: Language choice in multilingual communities . A case study
2017
Anàlisi: Quaderns de Comunicació i Cultura
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Students favor the English edition of Wikipedia when consulting it despite the fact that this is the language they assess themselves as being less proficient at in reading. ...
This paper presents a study on language use in both accessing and contributing to Wikipedia in a context were users were expected to be able to read and write in at least three languages (Catalan, Spanish ...
Acknowledgement We would like to thank Amical Wikimedia for their collaboration in both the design and implementation of the pedagogical exercise, as well as the Wikipedia community of volunteers, who ...
doi:10.5565/rev/analisi.3109
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No, Youtube'S "Trolls" Won'T Destroy Wikipedia
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2018
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YouTube's decision to embed Wikipedia articles under controversial videos caused a huge uproar. ...
But we know that the audience is not just there and passive. ...
This point is crucial, because it both highlights why YouTube's idea is futile and explains why "trolls" won't suddenly flock to Wikipedia in a united uproar. ...
doi:10.5281/zenodo.1205981
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"You get what you need" : A study of students' attitudes towards using Wikipedia when doing school assignments
2015
Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research
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At the same time, students are aware of most credibility issues associated with Wikipedia. ...
The main finding suggests that students favor Wikipedia because the site provides them with exactly what they need, being fast, flexible, and easy to use. ...
We must ask ourselves: Why is it that an encyclopedia has become the most popular knowledge source in school? ...
doi:10.1080/00313831.2015.1066428
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Evaluating discourse-based answer extraction forwhy-question answering
2007
Proceedings of the 30th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval - SIGIR '07
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We studied all Webclopedia questions and the corresponding Wikipedia fragments and we found that for 84.7% of questions, a complete paragraph from Wikipedia is a satisfactory answer. ...
We only considered the questions for which we were able to find an answer in Wikipedia (54% of all questions). ...
doi:10.1145/1277741.1277883
dblp:conf/sigir/VerberneBOC07
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Citation_Needed_September_2019_Wikimedia_Research_Showcase_Presentation
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2019
Figshare
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Slides from the September 2019 Wikimedia Research Showcase presenting research on Unsourced Statements on Wikipedia. ...
{{Citation needed|reason=Your explanation here|date=September 2019}}
Recent Changes Can we help editors identify if and why Wikipedia statements need citations? ...
Why? ...
doi:10.6084/m9.figshare.11387646.v1
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Knowledge, lost in translation
2011
Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine
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A survey of junior physicians estimated use of Wikipedia at 70%. Yet anybody can edit Wikipedia, why would we trust it? The evidence is less damning than perception. ...
The Internet offers helpful solutions but poses challenges, foremost of which is how much we trust the information we are reading? ...
doi:10.1258/jrsm.2011.11k047
pmid:22179286
pmcid:PMC3241517
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Random Ramblings- In Defense of Wikipedia and Google: When Scholarly Publications Fall Short
2016
Against the Grain
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We do love the books too much. We still believe they have a useful place in the world, and maybe that's why we keeping plugging away at them. ...
But Wikipedia is free, easy to access, and includes such a broad range of topics that I can understand why students often make it their first stop. ...
doi:10.7771/2380-176x.6584
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Meet Students Where They Are: Centering Wikipedia in the Classroom
2022
Communications in Information Literacy
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In 2019 we decided to meet students where they are by developing a two-credit course, Wikipedia and Information Equity, at Oregon State University that centers and critically examines Wikipedia as an information ...
There is a common classroom refrain, "Don't use Wikipedia; it's unreliable." ...
We'd also like to thank Laurie's son, Anders, and his third-grade teacher, Elvira Huidor Dever, both of whom inspired Laurie to begin investigating the educational benefits of Wikipedia in the classroom ...
doi:10.15760/comminfolit.2022.16.1.2
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Global gender differences in Wikipedia readership
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2020
arXiv
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From a global online survey of 65,031 readers of Wikipedia and their corresponding reading logs, we present novel evidence of gender differences in Wikipedia readership and how they manifest in records ...
More specifically we report that (1) women are underrepresented among readers of Wikipedia, (2) women view fewer pages per reading session than men do, (3) men and women visit Wikipedia for similar reasons ...
We thank Clemens Lechner (GESIS -Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences) for providing advice on the selection and harmonization of survey questions. ...
arXiv:2007.10403v1
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WikiPedia censorship : how to kill knowledge with a mock court case
2020
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Why WikiPedia is HELL for innovative scholars ??? ...
Why is this process still existing after 19 years of WikiPedia experience ? What do the administrators do when an article present for 13 years is erased ? ...
Why should other concepts be in WikiPedia showcase and not ours ? B. « I am not a shady moron ! ...
doi:10.5281/zenodo.4115999
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Education Through Wikipedia
2021
Mathematical Problems of Computer Science
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Wikipedia belongs to education in various ways. One gains knowledge by reading Wikipedia, the other obtains profound knowledge by contributing to Wikipedia. ...
It is the reason why educators in many countries include Wikipedia editing into their curriculum. ...
Wikipedia Belongs to Education Below are the statements on why reading or contributing to Wikipedia is the best way to learn and digest the topic of one's study. 1. ...
doi:10.51408/1963-0074
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