WikipediaViz: Conveying article quality for casual wikipedia readers

IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium 2010, PacificVis 2010 - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 49-56

  Chevalier, Fanny ^a   Huot, Stéphane ^b   Fekete, Jean Daniel ^c  

^a INRIA Joint Centre   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^c INRIA   (France)

Author keywords

Collaborative knowledge; Encyclopedia; Information visualization; Participatory design; Wikipedia

Indexed keywords

COLLABORATIVE KNOWLEDGE; INFORMATION VISUALIZATION; KNOWLEDGE BASIS; META INFORMATION; PARTICIPATORY DESIGN; PILOT STUDIES; QUALITY ASSESSMENT; USER STUDY; VISUAL INDICATORS; WIKIPEDIA;

DESIGN; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

VISUALIZATION;

EID: 77951689244     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PACIFICVIS.2010.5429611     Document Type: Conference Paper

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