On measuring the quality of wikipedia articles

Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Information Credibility, WICOW '10

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 11-18

  De La Calzada, Gabriel ^a   Dekhtyar, Alex ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

models; quality; wikipedia

Indexed keywords

HUMAN USERS; INFORMATION QUALITY; INFORMATION QUALITY MODEL; QUALITY; SIMPLE INFORMATIONS; WIKIPEDIA;

INFORMATION ANALYSIS;

EID: 77954574099     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1772938.1772943     Document Type: Conference Paper

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