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Case Study Group 5 - Wikipedia
Case Study Group 5 - Wikipedia
CASE
STUDY
Introduction
What is Wikipedia?
Wikipedia is a multilingual, web-based, free-content encyclopedia
project supported by the Wikimedia Foundation.
Based on a model of openly editable content.
Wikipedia is written collaboratively by largely anonymous
volunteers who write without pay.
More than
38m
articles
contributed
290
languages
contributors
800 new
374m unique
In
articles
daily
70k active
visitors
monthly
Case Study
Questions
As we have seen, Wikipedia is the online, peerproduced encyclopedia, is one of the most
discussed topics on campuses today. Much of the academic debate turns on issues about Wikipedia
"are student allow to use Wikipedia for citation or not?"
All lecturers dont accept the Wikipedia as a resource for student researches, because they cant
trust to Wikipedia. However, in some survey is revealed a big part of student use of Wikipedia. In
continue we see why and how these parts of student use of Wikipedia?
Figure 3: Why do
students
use Wikipedia for course
related research?
Students
used Wikipedia for a
variety of reasons. More
than any other reason,
8 in 10 survey
respondents (82
percent) reported that
they went
to Wikipedia to obtain
background information
or a summary about a
topic.
Wikipedia is one of the open source software, using Collective Intelligence concept.
Wikipedia is the most popular website that been introduced by Google during research.
A good starting point for researching certain topic before further searching using reliable sources.
If the information is wrong, it will lead to wrong interpretations by other users.
To date, there are more than 5 million article specifically in English version and 28 million registered
users.
Collective Intelligence
Form of networking enabled by the rise of communications technology,
which has enabled interactivity and users generating their own content
(dictionary.com)
Discover
and share
new ideas
Collective
Intelligen
ce
Augment
skills and
distribute
workload
Improve
forecastin
g
effectiven
ess
A Curse?
Inaccuracies.
Wiki wars.
Mischievous pranksters insert
offensive content.
A Blessing?
Inaccuracies?
Wikipedia do not expect
people to completely trust
them.
Wiki Wars?
Conclusio
n
Conclusion
Wikipedia relies heavily
on community editors
Conclusion
Multimedia-capable
handsets for audio,
video and photos
from the crowd
To understand the
users of Wikipedia and
how it can stay
relevant
References
Head, A., & Eisenberg, M. (2010). How todays college students use Wikipedia for course-related research First Monday,
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Coomer, A. (2013, May 13). The Guardian. Retrieved March 28, 2016, from Should university students use Wikipedia?: http://
www.theguardian.com/education/2013/may/13/should-university-students-use-wikipedia
Moran, M. E. (2011, October 27). Finding Dulcinea. Retrieved March 30, 2016, from The Top 10 Reasons Students Cannot
Cite or Rely On Wikipedia: http://
www.findingdulcinea.com/news/education/2010/march/The-Top-10-Reasons-Students-Cannot-Cite-or-Rely-on-Wikipedia.html
Wikipedia. (2016, February 1). Wikipedia. Retrieved March 15, 2016, from Wikipedia:Ten things you may not know about
Wikipedia: https://
en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Ten_things_you_may_not_know_about_Wikipedia&mobileaction=toggle_view_d
esktop
Wikipedia. (2016, April 2). Wikipedia. Retrieved April 15, 2016, from Wikipedia:Five pillars: https://
en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Five_pillars&mobileaction=toggle_view_desktop
Lih, A. (2016, January 15). The Washington Post. Retrieved April 1, 2016, from Wikipedia just turned 15 years old. Will it
survive 15 more?:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2016/01/15/wikipedia-just-turned-15-years-old-will-it-survive-15-more/