Published yesterday on PLOS One. Title Content Volatility of Scientific Topics in Wikipedia: A Cautionary Tale Authors Adam M. Wilson University at Buffalo Gene E. Likens University of Connecticu...
Sue Gardner, Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation (the organization that “powers” Wikipedia) was interviewed last week at ALIA’s 6th New Librarians Symposium in Brisbane, Australi...
Title Collective Intelligence and Neutral Point of View: The Case of Wikipedia Authors Shane Greenstein Northwestern U. Feng Zhu USC Source National Bureau of Economic Research Abstract We examin...
https://www.infodocket.com/2012/06/18/new-working-paper-wikipedia-perpetuates-political-bias/
From The Verge: Wikipedia lives and dies by its edits, and the process of adding information to the site is not without controversy. With debates flaring up around most pages dedicated to content...
From a Wikimedia Post: The gender distribution of Wikipedia editors hasn’t changed since the last survey . Among those surveyed, 90 percent self-identified as males, 9 percent as females and 1 ...
From The State (via The Item) The U.S. 4th Circuit Court of Appeals has overturned six guilty verdicts in a 2010 high-profile cockfighting trial because of a rogue juror’s use of the Internet d...
From the Public Relations Society of America Announcement: Sixty percent of Wikipedia articles about companies contain factual errors, according to research published today in the Public Relation...
By Charles Cooper: First it was Foursquare. And then Apple. Now, it’s Wikipedia’s turn to switch from Google Maps to OpenStreetMap. Wikipedia’s decision, announced in a blog post, is likely...
https://www.infodocket.com/2012/04/07/wikipedias-official-mobile-apps-say-so-long-to-google-maps/
Title The influence of free encyclopedias on science Author Sarah Huggett Source Research Trends* From the Article Since its launch in 2001 Wikipedia has seen incredible growth worldwide, countin...
https://www.infodocket.com/2012/03/28/new-article-the-influence-of-free-encyclopedias-on-science/
A new plug-in for use with Wikipedia data named “Swipe” will be demonstrated at the WWW conference next month. Until then, here’s some reading and viewing material about the technology. You...
https://www.infodocket.com/2012/03/28/asking-complex-questions-new-search-tool-to-unlock-wikipedia/