Issues of cross-contextual information quality evaluation-The case of Arabic, English, and Korean Wikipedias

Library and Information Science Research

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 232-239

  Stvilia, Besiki ^a   Al Faraj, Abdullah ^a   Yi, Yong Jeong ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 70350068091     PISSN: 07408188     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lisr.2009.07.005     Document Type: Article

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