Until recently, if you had searched for “Alan MacMasters” on Wikipedia, you would have found the same article that Adam did. And who would have doubted it? After all, like most Wikipedia articles, this one was peppered with references: news articles, books and websites that supposedly pro...
One of the most cited critiques, includes the earliest known description of "edit creep". To put the Wikipedia method in its simplest terms: 1. Anyone, irrespective of expertise in or even familiarity with the topic, can submit an article and it will be published. 2. Anyone, irrespective ...
References that anyone can edit: review of Wikipedia citations in peer reviewed health science literature. 喜欢 0 阅读量: 46 作者:Bould,M.,Dylan,Hladkowicz,Emily,S.,Pigford,Ashlee-Ann,E.,Ufholz 摘要: The article discusses a bibliometric analysis of publications in the English language taken ...
Paper [21] contains an analysis of 58 talk pages in the following categories: articles with most editors, most views, and controversial articles. The types of comments in the discussions usually vary by article type, but include: requests/suggestions for editing coordination, references to ...
However, an analysis of the content of the article, linked topics, and the references show that significant improvement can be made, with the potential to reach an ever-growing, engaged readership. Case study 2: Forging an Anglo-centric ‘Viking Age’ on Wikipedia, by Lucy Moore This second...
2. The WRS user interface WRS: The Wikipedia Recommender System 301 the recommender is used together with the rating in the recommendation to calculate the aggregated article rating. If the user's trust in a recommender is high, the rating will contribute more to the aggregate rating. This ...
The article focuses particularly on the role of references to external sources for the stabilisation of knowledge in Wikipedia. Design/methodology/approach - The study is inspired by online ethnography. It includes eleven Wikipedia editors, together with the sociotechnical resources in Wikipedia. The ...
If you have verifiable evidence, as long as you add it to the article, it's acceptable. Knowing to look at the references rather than the article is a good way to use Wikipedia, as the article may need editing. I've lost hours surfing the different topics on there, and found so ...
The short answer is: Yes! The citations (little numbers/links included in the articles) lead to quality secondary sources. Presumably, the more references an article has, the more truthful the article. Wikipedia ranks prominently because it has characteristics of an authority site (likeBloombergor...
It takesmore than one referenceto make a Wikipedia article. Far more. For example, a biography of a living person requires web references for most, if not all, facts presented. Wikipedia editors are very picky about this. For example, a statement like:“John Smith is the CEO of Acme Road...