Joining the Global Village: Teaching Globalization with Wikipedia

Konieczny, Piotr

doi:10.1177/0092055x17714030

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“…Being by most measures the most widely read knowledge repository on Earth, Wikipedia is often treated as unworthy of academic attention (Jemielniak, D. 2019), although some opposite experiences have been already presented (e.g. Selwyn, N. and Gorard, S. 2016;Konieczny, P. 2017;Di Lauro, F. and Johinke, R. 2017).…”

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Uneven geographies in the various language editions of Wikipedia: the case of Ukrainian cities

Gnatiuk

Glybovets

2021

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The paper tackles the issue of uneven geographical representations on Wikipedia, the most visible and powerful user-generated encyclopaedia. In particular, it addresses language imbalances on Wikipedia with regard to geographical information and uneven spatial patterns of territory coverage on the different language versions in an attempt to verify expectations about the cultural factors that influence these imbalances and uneven spatial patterns. Ukraine is a promising case for testing the formulated expectations, as it has a large number of neighbouring countries, and most of them had political and cultural influence on its territory in the past. The volumes (word counts) of articles about the Ukrainian cities were analysed for seven language versions of Wikipedia, including the Ukrainian version and the versions of all bordering countries. The results show that historical geography is the strongest and central factor, and most of the key relic borders (former boundaries) can be traced. Ethnic composition appears to be another important factor, although weaker than the previous one. The role of the border factor is often unclear, but in some cases it definitely makes an impact and therefore cannot be completely ignored. Thus, the geographies of Wikipedia are not indifferent to the issues of ethnicity and geopolitics. The research calls into question the ability of modern Wikipedia to be a reliable and balanced source of geographical knowledge, as the described imbalances may create lopsided and biased geographical representations in people from different countries and nations.

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Uneven geographies in the various language editions of Wikipedia: the case of Ukrainian cities

Gnatiuk

Glybovets

2021

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“…Especially in HE, there is a common assumption that Wikipedia is a low-quality source and students are discouraged from using it. On the contrary, the reception of Wikipedia in academia is changing quickly and sometimes is even used for teaching [16]. There are also a number of references showing that Wikipedia’s quality is actually on par with professional sources, for example, in some medical issues [17,18].…”

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Indicator of quality for environmental articles on Wikipedia at the higher education level

Petiška

Moldan

2019

Journal of Information Science

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Wikipedia is important in higher education because students and scholars often use it. Nevertheless, the issue of Wikipedia’s quality is an obstacle for its use at the higher education level. In order to contribute to this discussion, we have proposed ‘Verifiability by respected sources’ as an indicator for assessing the quality of Wikipedia articles at the higher education level and conducted an analysis of the most frequently visited articles in the category of Environment on Wikipedia. Results show that these articles contain many unreferenced statements, so their usage at the higher education level is problematic. Therefore, we also propose specific steps for relevant actors that could help to improve the quality of Wikipedia.

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From Adversaries to Allies? The Uneasy Relationship between Experts and the Wikipedia Community

Konieczny

2021

She Ji: The Journal of Design, Economics, and Innovation

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Joining the Global Village: Teaching Globalization with Wikipedia

Cited by 4 publications

References 17 publications

Uneven geographies in the various language editions of Wikipedia: the case of Ukrainian cities

Uneven geographies in the various language editions of Wikipedia: the case of Ukrainian cities

Indicator of quality for environmental articles on Wikipedia at the higher education level

From Adversaries to Allies? The Uneasy Relationship between Experts and the Wikipedia Community

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