• DocumentCode
    3849907
  • Title

    Introducing New Features to Wikipedia: Case Studies for Web Science

  • Author

    Mathias Schindler;Denny Vrandeccic

  • Author_Institution
    Wikimedia Deutschland
  • Volume
    26
  • Issue
    1
  • fYear
    2011
  • Firstpage
    56
  • Lastpage
    61
  • 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
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1541-1672
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/MIS.2011.17
  • Filename
    5714204