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Title	Author(s)	Published in	Language	DateThis property is a special property in this wiki.	Abstract	R	C
Assessing the accuracy and quality of Wikipedia entries compared to popular online encyclopaedias	Imogen Casebourne Chris Davies Michelle Fernandes Naomi Norman		English	2 August 2012		8	0
Wikipédia, un projet hors normes ?	Rémi Bachelet Alexandre Moatti	Responsabilité & Environnement (Annales des Mines)	French	24 July 2012	Wikipédia et l'ISO représentent toutes deux une cristallisation du savoir. que ce soit savoir-faire (ISO) ou savoir encyclopédique (Wikipédia). Toutes deux sont fondés sur la recherche de consensus et la collaboration sous forme de textes écrits. Dès le départ Wikipédia a adopté des règles, avec ses cinq principes fondateurs. La montée en puissance a conduit au développement d'un espace méta (ex. page de discussion) dont le fonctionnement a nécessité une codification.	2	0
Wikipedia de la A a la W	Tomás Saorín-Pérez	Editorial UOC	Spanish	July 2012	Wikipedia es una realidad que funciona, aunque en teoría pueda parecer un sueño irrealizable. Un puñado de entusiastas ha redefinido desde la nada el concepto clásico de enciclopedia y ha construido la fuente de referencia más usada de la historia. ¿Tiene suficiente calidad? La respuesta es afirmativa, y para justificarlo hay que profundizar en los mecanismos de los que está dotada, que le permiten alcanzar el nivel de calidad que se desee, combinando el esfuerzo de miles de editores voluntarios autoorganizados. Wikipedia es al mismo tiempo contenido y personas. Es el momento de conocerla por dentro y de potenciar su apuesta por el conocimiento abierto desde las instituciones culturales, científicas y educativas. Participar en Wikipedia permite aprender de este increíble laboratorio global de construcción social de información organizada.	0	0
The people's encyclopedia under the gaze of the sages: a systematic review of scholarly research on Wikipedia	Chitu Okoli Mohamad Mehdi Mostafa Mesgari Finn Årup Nielsen Arto Lanamäki		English	2012	Wikipedia has become one of the ten most visited sites on the Web, and the world’s leading source of Web reference information. Its rapid success has inspired hundreds of scholars from various disciplines to study its content, communication and community dynamics from various perspectives. This article presents a systematic review of scholarly research on Wikipedia. We describe our detailed, rigorous methodology for identifying over 450 scholarly studies of Wikipedia. We present the WikiLit website (http wikilit dot referata dot com), where most of the papers reviewed here are described in detail. In the major section of this article, we then categorize and summarize the studies. An appendix features an extensive list of resources useful for Wikipedia researchers.	15	0
Bancos de imágenes para proyectos enciclopédicos: el caso de Wikimedia Commons	Tomás Saorín-Pérez Juan-Antonio Pastor-Sánchez	El profesional de la información	Spanish	2011	This paper presents the characteristics and functionalities of the Wikimedia Commons image databank shared by all Wikipedia projects. The process of finding images and ilustrating Wikipedia articles is also explained, along with how to add images to the bank. The role of cultural institutions in promoting free and open cultural heritage content is highlighted. Se presenta la naturaleza y función del banco de imágenes Wikimedia Commons para los proyectos de enciclopedias colaborativas. Se analiza el proceso de localización de imágenes y su uso para ilustrar un artículo en Wikipedia, así como la colaboración incorporando imágenes al banco. Se hace especial referencia a las políticas de liberación de patrimonio cultural desde las instituciones culturales.	5	1
The PlanetMath Encyclopedia	Joseph Corneli	MathWikis	English	2011	The history of PlanetMath.org is discussed, tracing its inception, stabilization, and some defining challenges. Research and outreach efforts that have been conducted in the course of work on the PlanetMath project are reviewed, and the scope and reach of the resource are discussed. Recent developments are indicated briefly. Some remarks evaluating PlanetMath’s trajectory and content conclude the paper.	0	0
Textual curators and writing machines: authorial agency in encyclopedias, print to digital	Krista A. Kennedy		English	July 2009	Wikipedia is often discussed as the first of its kind: the first massively collaborative, Web-based encyclopedia that belongs to the public domain. While it’s true that wiki technology enables large-scale, distributed collaborations in revolutionary ways, the concept of a collaborative encyclopedia is not new, and neither is the idea that private ownership might not apply to such documents. More than 275 years ago, in the preface to the 1728 edition of his Cyclopædia, Ephraim Chambers mused on the intensely collaborative nature of the volumes he was about to publish. His thoughts were remarkably similar to contemporary intellectual property arguments for Wikipedia, and while the composition processes involved in producing these texts are influenced by the available technologies, they are also unexpectedly similar. This dissertation examines issues of authorial agency in these two texts and shows that the “Author Construct” is not static across eras, genres, or textual technologies. In contrast to traditional considerations of the poetic author, the encyclopedic author demonstrates a different form of authorial agency that operates within strict genre conventions and does not place a premium on originality. This and related variations challenge contemporary ideas concerning the divide between print and digital authorship as well as the notion that new media intellectual property arguments are without historical precedent.	25	0
Creating "the Wikipedia of pros and cons"	Brooks Lindsay	WikiSym	English	2009		0	0
Enciclopédias na web 2.0: colaboração e moderação na Wikipédia e Britannica Online	Carlos Frederico de Brito d’Andréa	Em Questão: Revista da Faculdade de Biblioteconomia e Comunicação da UFRGS	Portuguese	2009	This paper compares the editorial policies of Wikipedia and Britannica Online, with focus in openness to public participation and the mechanisms of moderation to allow or limit the collective editing of articles. The description and analysis of those mechanisms consider the technical resources that enable collaboration and validation of information, the rules of internal management of content and community of users. Despite some common features shared by both projects, we point out fundamental differences in those initiatives, such as valuing expertise (Britannica) or the engagement of users (Wikipedia).	16	2
Comparison of Wikipedia and other encyclopedias for accuracy, breadth, and depth in historical articles	Lucy Holman Rector	Reference Services Review	English	2008	Purpose – This paper seeks to provide reference librarians and faculty with evidence regarding the comprehensiveness and accuracy of Wikipedia articles compared with respected reference resources. Design/methodology/approach – This content analysis evaluated nine Wikipedia articles against comparable articles in Encyclopaedia Britannica, The Dictionary of American History and American National Biography Online in order to compare Wikipedia's comprehensiveness and accuracy. The researcher used a modification of a stratified random sampling and a purposive sampling to identify a variety of historical entries and compared each text in terms of depth, accuracy, and detail. Findings – The study did reveal inaccuracies in eight of the nine entries and exposed major flaws in at least two of the nine Wikipedia articles. Overall, Wikipedia's accuracy rate was 80 percent compared with 95-96 percent accuracy within the other sources. This study does support the claim that Wikipedia is less reliable than other reference resources. Furthermore, the research found at least five unattributed direct quotations and verbatim text from other sources with no citations. Research limitations/implications – More research must be undertaken to analyze Wikipedia entries in other disciplines in order to judge the source's accuracy and overall quality. This paper also shows the need for analysis of Wikipedia articles' histories and editing process. Practical implications – This research provides a methodology for further content analysis of Wikipedia articles. Originality/value – Although generalizations cannot be made from this paper alone, the paper provides empirical data to support concerns regarding the accuracy and authoritativeness of Wikipedia.	0	0
Learning to Trust the Crowd: Some Lessons from Wikipedia	F. Xavier Olleros	MCETECH	English	2008		0	2
Locapedias: Generación de contenido local de manera colaborativa	Alfredo Romeo Molina	IX Jornadas de Gestión de la Información	Spanish	November 2007	Wikipedia has become the biggest encyclopedia ever made in the world. With more than four million articles written in hundreds of languages, Wikipedia is nowadays one of the five internet well-known branches in the world. In 2004, following the Wikipedia model, Alfredo Romeo suggests the launching of “locapedias”, based on the voluntary and collaborative model of contributors, with the aim of creating the biggest knowledge centre ever written about a local area. In 2005 the first “locapedia”, Cordobapedia, is founded. About two years later, 12 locapedias can be found in Spain, with about 20000 local articles made in a collaborative way. As time goes by, locapedias will probably represent for cities and regions the same as wikipedia has achieved: the largest reference web-site for local knowledge in any city with a locapedia. For locapedias, the fact that public institutions, as libraries or local archives, head these proyects could be the needed guaranteed mark to consolidate a movement of local-free knowleadge creation, which will be the reference for the society we are unstoppable going to: the knowledge society.	1	1
Wiki-Philosophizing in a Marketplace of Ideas: Evaluating Wikipedia’s Entries on Seven Great Minds	George Bragues	SSRN Electronic Journal	English	3 April 2007	A very conspicuous part of the new participatory media, Wikipedia has emerged as the Internet's leading source of all-purpose information, the volume and range of its articles far surpassing that of its traditional rival, the Encyclopedia Britannica. This has been accomplished by permitting virtually anyone to contribute, either by writing an original article or editing an existing one. With almost no entry barriers to the production of information, the result is that Wikipedia exhibits a perfectly competitive marketplace of ideas. It has often been argued that such a marketplace is the best guarantee that quality information will be generated and disseminated. We test this contention by examining Wikipedia's entries on seven top Western philosophers. These entries are evaluated against the consensus view elicited from four academic reference works in philosophy. Wikipedia's performance turns out to be decidedly mixed. Its average coverage rate of consensus topics is 52%, while the median rate is 56%. A qualitative analysis uncovered no outright errors, though there were significant omissions. The online encyclopedia's harnessing of the marketplace of ideas, though not unimpressive, fails to emerge as clearly superior to the traditional alternative of relying on individual expertise for information.	7	1
L'édition de référence libre et collaborative : le cas de Wikipédia	Laure Endrizzi	Les dossiers de la veille	French	March 2006	L'année 2005 a été particulièrement riche en débats et controverses sur l'encyclopédie libre Wikipedia. Alors que l'attention des médias grands publics et les réactions des traditionnels médiateurs du savoir restent le plus souvent mobilisées par des affaires de vandalisme et plus généralement par des problèmes de fiabilité et de qualité, les usages ne cessent de se développer. Le nombre total d'articles sur l'ensemble des versions est passé de 1 million 400.000 à 3 millions 400.000 en l'espace d'un an. Cette croissance exponentielle des contenus s'accompagne d'une augmentation forte de la fréquentation, plaçant l'encyclopédie parmi les 25 sites les plus visités au monde selon le baromètre Alexa avec un trafic très largement supérieur à celui d'autres sites de référence tels que Britannica par exemple. Parallèlement, si les recherches sur les blogs et les logiciels sociaux bénéficient d'un certain attrait, la communauté scientifique ne s'intéresse encore guère aux wikis et très marginalement à Wikipedia. Les premières éditions des conférences Wikimania (août 2005) et Wikisym (octobre 2005) laissent à penser que les jalons sont posés pour analyser les enjeux et le fonctionnement de ce phénomène éditorial sans précédent. Par ailleurs, la mutualisation s'opère aussi au sein même du Wikimedia Research Network, association qui regroupe les chercheurs travaillant sur Wikipedia ou bien d'autres projets de la fondation Wikimedia (cf. bibliographie du WRN). Nous nous attacherons dans cette synthèse à mettre en perspective les premières recherches sur Wikipedia avec les principales prises de position relayées par les médias traditionnels et l'internet. Le lecteur ne s'étonnera pas de voir se côtoyer des travaux de chercheurs - quelquefois jeunes et méconnus - avec quelques articles de la presse généraliste ou spécialisée mais aussi avec des réactions et analyses d'acteurs de l'édition de référence (producteurs et prescripteurs). Ces dernières références seront matérialisées dans le texte par des crochets et un astérisque : [Auteur, année]* ; elles renverront à la partie « débats et réflexions » de la bibliographie. (Ce travail a été réalisé dans le cadre d'un partenariat entre l'INRP et l'équipe LIRE de l'université Lyon 2 pour le projet de recherche ENCYCLEN - encyclopédies en ligne -, retenu par l'ACI Education et Formation en 2004).	0	0