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Wikipedia: Why is the common knowledge resource still neglected by academics?
Wikipedia is by far the largest online encyclopedia, and the number of errors it contains is on par with the professional sources even in specialized topics such as biology or medicine. Yet, the academic world is still treating it with great skepticism because of the types of inaccuracies present th...
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6889752/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31794014 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/gigascience/giz139 |
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| description | Wikipedia is by far the largest online encyclopedia, and the number of errors it contains is on par with the professional sources even in specialized topics such as biology or medicine. Yet, the academic world is still treating it with great skepticism because of the types of inaccuracies present there, the widespread plagiarism from Wikipedia, and historic biases, as well as jealousy regarding the loss of the knowledge dissemination monopoly. This article argues that it is high time not only to acknowledge Wikipedia's quality but also to start actively promoting its use and development in academia. |
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| spelling | pubmed-68897522019-12-05 Wikipedia: Why is the common knowledge resource still neglected by academics? Jemielniak, Dariusz Gigascience Commentary Wikipedia is by far the largest online encyclopedia, and the number of errors it contains is on par with the professional sources even in specialized topics such as biology or medicine. Yet, the academic world is still treating it with great skepticism because of the types of inaccuracies present there, the widespread plagiarism from Wikipedia, and historic biases, as well as jealousy regarding the loss of the knowledge dissemination monopoly. This article argues that it is high time not only to acknowledge Wikipedia's quality but also to start actively promoting its use and development in academia. Oxford University Press 2019-12-03 /pmc/articles/PMC6889752/ /pubmed/31794014 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/gigascience/giz139 Text en © The Author(s) 2019. Published by Oxford University Press. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
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| title | Wikipedia: Why is the common knowledge resource still neglected by academics? |
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| url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6889752/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31794014 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/gigascience/giz139 |
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