Wikipedia as Participatory Journalism: Reliable Sources? Metrics for evaluating collaborative media as a news resource

By A. Lih. 2004

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Size matters: word count as a measure of quality on wikipedia (2008, background): “At a qualitative level, Lih [3] proposed using the total number of edits and unique editors to measure article quality, and Cross [2] suggested coloring text according to age so that visitors could immediately discern its quality.”
Becoming Wikipedian: transformation of participation in a collaborative online encyclopedia (2005, background): “…been made to establish quantitative metrics to measure site growth and complexity [24], and to identify article characteristics such as rigor (the total number of edits) and diversity (the number of individual editors) for evaluating the quality of Wikipedia content based on editing trends [17].”
Self-Governance Through Group Discussion in Wikipedia (2011, background): “Wikipedia has become recognized as an increasingly common source of encyclopedic information as well as a powerful social force that challenges traditional notions of expertise and knowledge construction (Lih, 2004; Stvilia, Twindale, Smith, & Gasser, 2005).”
Learning to link with wikipedia (2008, background): “This popularity is entirely understandable: Wikipedia offers scale and multilingualism that dwarfs other knowledge bases, and an ability to evolve quickly and cover even the most turbulent of domains (Lih 2004).”
Web-based statistical fact checking of textual documents (2010, background): “Other approaches modeled quality of Wikipedia articles in terms of accessibility-related information, citation-based analysis and the likes [7, 5].”
Information quality work organization in wikipedia (2008, unknown): “Lih (2004) studied Wikipedia content construction and use processes from the perspective of participatory journalism.”
A systemic and cognitive view on collaborative knowledge building with wikis (2008, background): “An example which illustrates the potential of wikis is the online encyclopedia Wikipedia (Korfiatis et al. 2006; Lih 2004; Pentzold and Seidenglanz 2006; Wagner 2006).”
Cultural Differences in Collaborative Authoring of Wikipedia (2006, methodology): “Lih (2004) developed a tool for the evaluation of the quality of Wikipedia articles based on metadata, such as the number of edits made and the number of contributors .”
Alternative and Activist New Media (2011, unknown): “Inventing the Internet.”
Assessing Information Quality of a Community-Based Encyclopedia (2005, methodology): “It has been attested, however, by a number of studies that certain aspects of the Wikipedia IQ such as Currency and the Formality of language are quite high, and Wikipedia has been widely used even by information professionals [12] [6].”
Beyond vandalism: Wikipedia trolls (2010, unknown): “For example, Lih [7] used the number of edits per article, the number of editors, and press citations as an evaluation matrix to confirm the famous mantra for the open source movement, ‘given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow’ [8].”