On the credibility of wikipedia: an accessibility perspective Export

@inproceedings{citeulike:3680543, abstract = {User interfaces play a critical role on the credibility of authoritative information sources on the Web. Citation and referencing mechanisms often provide the required support for the independent verifiability of facts and, consequently, influence the credibility of the conveyed information. Since the quality level of these references has to be verifiable by users without any barriers, user interfaces cannot pose problems on accessing information. This paper presents a study about the influence of accessibility of user interfaces on the credibility of Wikipedia articles. We have analysed the accessibility quality level of the articles and the external Web pages used as authoritative references. This study has shown that there is a discrepancy on the accessibility of referenced Web pages, which can compromise the overall credibility of Wikipedia. Based on these results, we have analysed the article referencing lifecycle (technologies and policies) and propose a set of improvements that can help increasing the accessibility of references within Wikipedia articles.}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, author = {Lopes, Rui and Carri\cco, Luis}, booktitle = {WICOW '08: Proceeding of the 2nd ACM workshop on Information credibility on the web}, citeulike-article-id = {3680543}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1458527.1458536}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1458527.1458536}, doi = {10.1145/1458527.1458536}, isbn = {978-1-60558-259-7}, keywords = {accessibility, citations, credibility, references, usability, wikipedia}, location = {Napa Valley, California, USA}, pages = {27--34}, posted-at = {2008-11-24 09:29:21}, priority = {3}, publisher = {ACM}, title = {On the credibility of wikipedia: an accessibility perspective}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1458527.1458536}, year = {2008} }

TY - CONF ID - citeulike:3680543 L3 - citeulike-article-id:3680543 N2 - User interfaces play a critical role on the credibility of authoritative information sources on the Web. Citation and referencing mechanisms often provide the required support for the independent verifiability of facts and, consequently, influence the credibility of the conveyed information. Since the quality level of these references has to be verifiable by users without any barriers, user interfaces cannot pose problems on accessing information. This paper presents a study about the influence of accessibility of user interfaces on the credibility of Wikipedia articles. We have analysed the accessibility quality level of the articles and the external Web pages used as authoritative references. This study has shown that there is a discrepancy on the accessibility of referenced Web pages, which can compromise the overall credibility of Wikipedia. Based on these results, we have analysed the article referencing lifecycle (technologies and policies) and propose a set of improvements that can help increasing the accessibility of references within Wikipedia articles. CY - Napa Valley, California, USA SN - 978-1-60558-259-7 AD - New York, NY, USA EP - 34 TI - On the credibility of wikipedia: an accessibility perspective PB - ACM T2 - WICOW '08: Proceeding of the 2nd ACM workshop on Information credibility on the web SP - 27 KW - accessibility KW - citations KW - credibility KW - references KW - usability KW - wikipedia AU - Lopes, Rui AU - Carri\cco, Luis PY - 2008/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1458527.1458536 ER -