Early response to false claims in Wikipedia, 15 years later

Authors

P.D. Magnus, University at Albany, State University of New YorkFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

9-4-2023

DOI

https://dx.doi.org/10.5210/fm.v28i9.12912

Abstract

Fifteen years ago, I conducted a small study testing the error-correction tendency of Wikipedia. Not only is Wikipedia different now than it was then, the community that maintains it is different. Despite the crudity of that study’s methods, it is natural to wonder what the result would be now. So I repeated the earlier study and found surprisingly similar results.

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Early response to false claims in Wikipedia, 15 years later by P.D. Magnus. First Monday, Volume 28, Number 9 - 4 September 2023 https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/download/12912/11332 doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.5210/fm.v28i9.12912