Information Quality: Discussions in Wikipedia Export

@article{citeulike:264916, abstract = {We examine the Information Quality aspects of Wikipedia. By a study of the discussion pages and other process-oriented pages within the Wikip edia project, it is possible to determine the information quality dimensions that participants in the editing process care about, how they talk about them, what tradeoffs they make between these dimensions and how the quality assessment and improvement process operates. This analysis helps in understanding how high quality is maintained in a project where anyone may participate with no prior vetting. It also carries implications for improving the quality of more conventional datasets.}, author = {Stvilia, Besiki and Twidale, Michael B. and Smith, Linda C.}, citeulike-article-id = {264916}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://www.isrl.uiuc.edu/~stvilia/papers/qualWiki.pdf}, institution = {Graduate School of Library and Information Science,}, keywords = {quality, wikipedia}, posted-at = {2008-02-10 13:10:35}, priority = {0}, title = {Information Quality: Discussions in Wikipedia}, url = {http://www.isrl.uiuc.edu/~stvilia/papers/qualWiki.pdf}, year = {2005} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:264916 L3 - citeulike-article-id:264916 N2 - We examine the Information Quality aspects of Wikipedia. By a study of the discussion pages and other process-oriented pages within the Wikip edia project, it is possible to determine the information quality dimensions that participants in the editing process care about, how they talk about them, what tradeoffs they make between these dimensions and how the quality assessment and improvement process operates. This analysis helps in understanding how high quality is maintained in a project where anyone may participate with no prior vetting. It also carries implications for improving the quality of more conventional datasets. TI - Information Quality: Discussions in Wikipedia KW - quality KW - wikipedia AU - Stvilia, Besiki AU - Twidale, Michael AU - Smith, Linda PY - 2005/// UR - http://www.isrl.uiuc.edu/~stvilia/papers/qualWiki.pdf ER -