Size matters: Word count as a measure of quality on Wikipedia

Proceeding of the 17th International Conference on World Wide Web 2008, WWW'08

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1095-1096

  Blumenstock, Joshua E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Information quality; Wikipedia; Word count

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX METHODS; INFORMATION QUALITY; WIKIPEDIA; WORD COUNT;

INTERNET;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 57349119803     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1367497.1367673     Document Type: Conference Paper

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