Archive for September 3rd, 2015

A sea-change in science citation? The Wikipedia Science conference.

Thursday, September 3rd, 2015

The first conference devoted to scientific uses of Wikipedia has just finished; there was lots of fascinating stuff but here I concentrate on one report that I thought was especially interesting. To introduce it, I need first to introduce WikiData. This is part of the WikiMedia ecosystem, and one of the newest. The basic concept is really simple.

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