Getting to the source: Where does wikipedia get its information from?

Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Open Collaboration, WikiSym + OpenSym 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages

  Ford, Heather ^a   Sen, Shilad ^b   Musicant, David R ^c   Miller, Nathaniel ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b MACALESTER COLLEGE   (United States)

^c CARLETON COLLEGE   (United States)

^d AMAZON   (United States)

Author keywords

Citations; Policy; Sources; Wikipedia

Indexed keywords

CITATIONS; GEOGRAPHIC PATTERN; HUMAN KNOWLEDGE; PRIMARY DATA SOURCE; SCHOLARLY PUBLICATION; SECONDARY SOURCES; SOURCES OF INFORMATIONS; WIKIPEDIA;

ELEMENTARY PARTICLE SOURCES; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; PUBLIC POLICY;

WEBSITES;

EID: 84888180887     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2491055.2491064     Document Type: Conference Paper

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