Die Zahnmedizin in Wikipedia: Eine Quantitative Und Qualitative

Die Zahnmedizin in Wikipedia: Eine Quantitative Und Qualitative - scientific work related to Wikipedia quality published in 2010, written by Annette Lorenz and Jens C. Türp.

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Summary Lorenz A, Turp J C: Dentistry in Wikipedia: A quantitative and qualitative analysis (in German). Schweiz Monatsschr Zahnmed 120: 1117–1121 (2010)The aim of this study was to assess the scientific quality of the 265 dental articles that were present in January 2008 in the German-language version of Wikipedia. For this purpose, the Wikipedia entries were examined for their correctness by comparing them with the current dental literature. Every ar-ticle was classified as having “textbook quality”, “partial text-book quality” or “missing textbook quality”. Of the 261 usable articles, 28% were qualitatively comparable to a textbook, while 56% had partial textbook quality. About 16% of the ar-ticles fell into the third group. Almost half of the Wikipedia entries fulfilled the qualitative standards, whereas the remain-ing articles were characterized by omissions. Hence, individu-als interested in dental topics should not exclusively rely on Wikipedia. For a cursory overview, however, a search in Wiki-pedia appears to be in order.