Internet encyclopaedias go head to head

By J. Giles. Nature, 2005

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A content-driven reputation system for the wikipedia (2007, background): “[Str06, HR06]). While the average quality of Wikipedia articles is high [ Gil05 ], it may be useful to know which text was inserted by experienced authors,”
The Cognitive Atlas: Toward a Knowledge Foundation for Cognitive Neuroscience (2011, background): “For example, thousands of individuals may contribute to a single Wikipedia article, each with different knowledge and points of view, with results rivaling those of expert-written encyclopedias in quality (Giles, 2005) and vastly exceeding them in scope.”
The Principles of Distributed Innovation (2007, background): “Analysis of the quality of articles has found error rates to be only slightly higher for Wikipedia than for Encyclopedia Britannica.19 Distributed innovation systems will take hold first in areas of endeavor dominated by information and knowledge, but not necessarily limited to the purveyance of pur”
Is There a Market for Ideas (2010, positive): “Perhaps surprisingly, however, most independent tests suggest that the overall rate of error is similar across free, user- and expert-based systems with positive prices (and, along some dimensions, Wikipedia is in fact superior) (Giles, 2005).”
Model Formulation: HealthMap: Global Infectious Disease Monitoring through Automated Classification and Visualization of Internet Media Reports (2008, neutral): “29 On the human side, taking inspiration from the highly successful Wikipedia model, 30 we plan to work with networks of experts to evaluate community collaboration as a mechanism for alert acquisition and classiﬁcation.”
Beyond vandalism: Wikipedia trolls (2010, background): “Giles [9] who tested the accuracy of 42 entries in both the Britannica Online Encyclopaedia and Wikipedia reported similar quality levels.”
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Alternative and Activist New Media (2011, neutral): “(Baker, 2008, p. 6) Somebody who reads Wikipedia is “rather in the position of a visitor to a public restroom,” says Mr. [Robert] McHenry, Britannica’s former editor.”
Designing games with a purpose (2008, background): “More recent examples of networked distributed collaboration include Wikipedia, by some measures equal in quality to the Encyclopaedia Britannica.6 The collaborative effort by large numbers of networked individuals makes it possible to accomplish tasks that would be much more difficult, time consum”
Creating, destroying, and restoring value in wikipedia (2007, background): “Categories and Subject Descriptors H.5.3 [Group and Organization Interfaces]: Computersupported cooperative work, web-based interaction General Terms Human factors Keywords Wiki, Wikipedia, collaboration, vandalism, damage”
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Wikipedia (2014, background): “The first important study concerning the subject was published in Nature (Giles 2005).”
The Three P's of Pedagogy for the Networked Society: Personalization, Participation, and Productivity. (2008, background): “Nature, 438(7070), 900-901.”