Title :
Introducing New Features to Wikipedia: Case Studies for Web Science
Author :
Mathias Schindler;Denny Vrandeccic
Author_Institution :
Wikimedia Deutschland
Abstract :
Wikipedia is a free Web based encyclopedia produced by hundreds of thousands of online contributors. Today, Wikipedia offers more than 10 million articles and is available in more than 250 languages. For some of these languages, Wikipedia is not just free, but the only encyclopedia. Wikipedia is a complex sociotechnical process.
Keywords :
"Encyclopedias","Internet","Electronic publishing","Wikipedia","Semantics","Social implications of technology"
Journal_Title :
IEEE Intelligent Systems
DOI :
10.1109/MIS.2011.17