Improving wikipedia's accuracy: Is edit age a solution?

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 318-330

  Luyt, Brendan ^a   Tay, Chee Hsien Aaron ^a   Lim, Hai Thian ^a   Cheng, Kian Hong ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CODES (SYMBOLS); ERROR CORRECTION;

SURVIVING SEGMENTS; WIKIPEDIA'S ACCURACY;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 38949090311     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.20755     Document Type: Article

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