Reliability of User-Generated Data: The Case of Biographical Data in Wikipedia
Authors | Robert Viseur |
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Publication date | 2014 |
ISBN | 978-145033016-9 |
DOI | 10.1145/2641580.2641618 |
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Reliability of User-Generated Data: The Case of Biographical Data in Wikipedia - scientific work about Wikipedia quality published in 2014, written by Robert Viseur.
Overview
Wikipedia is a collaborative multilingual encyclopedia launched in 2001. Authors already conducted a first research on the extraction of biographical data about personalities from Belgium in order to build a large database with biographical data. However, the question of the reliability of the data arises. In particular, in the case of Wikipedia, the data are generated by users and could be subject to errors. In consequence, authors wanted to answer to the following question: are the data introduced in Wikipedia articles reliable? Their research is organized in three sections. The first section provides a brief state of the art about the reliability of the user-generated data. A second section presents the methodology of their research. A third section will present the results. The error rates that were measured for the birthdate is low (0.75%), although it is higher than the 0.21% score that authors observed for the baseline (reference sources). In a fourth section, the results are discussed.
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Viseur, Robert. (2014). "[[Reliability of User-Generated Data: The Case of Biographical Data in Wikipedia]]". International Journal of Information Quality Volume 3, Issue 3, 1 January 2014, pp. 207-227. ISBN: 978-145033016-9. DOI: 10.1145/2641580.2641618.
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Viseur, Robert. (2014). "<a href="https://wikipediaquality.com/wiki/Reliability_of_User-Generated_Data:_The_Case_of_Biographical_Data_in_Wikipedia">Reliability of User-Generated Data: The Case of Biographical Data in Wikipedia</a>". International Journal of Information Quality Volume 3, Issue 3, 1 January 2014, pp. 207-227. ISBN: 978-145033016-9. DOI: 10.1145/2641580.2641618.
