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Analysis of cryptocurrency exchanges using open data
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September 3, 2024 1 min

Analysis of cryptocurrency exchanges using open data

The work of our scientists on the analysis of digital currency exchanges has been published on the Springer website. As part of the research, models for predicting the success and bankruptcy of cryptocurrency exchanges were developed, based on financial data and information collected from open Internet sources such as Wikipedia and Wikidata. The aim of […]

#cryptocurrencies #machine learning #open data #Piotr Stolarski #Wikidata #Wikipedia
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Measuring Americanization across the world using Wikidata and Wikipedia (video)
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August 26, 2024 3 min

Measuring Americanization across the world using Wikidata and Wikipedia (video)

During the Wikimania 2024 conference, the results of scientific research on measuring Americanization in various regions of the world based on open data from Wikipedia and Wikidata were presented. The conducted research reveals differences in interest in American topics depending on the level of development of countries, offering a new perspective on global cultural dominance. […]

#Americanization #Piotr Konieczny #presentation #video #Wikidata #Wikimania #Wikipedia
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27th Poznań Festival of Science and Art
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May 13, 2024 2 min

27th Poznań Festival of Science and Art

As part of the 27th Poznań Festival of Science and Art, workshops on fake news detection were held. During the event, participants had the opportunity to learn how to distinguish fake news from real information and what tools they can use to verify content on social media.

#fake news #PUEB
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The most cited scientific information sources in Wikipedia articles across various languages
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March 28, 2024 2 min

The most cited scientific information sources in Wikipedia articles across various languages

The latest issue of the journal “Biblioteka” published an article on the analysis of citations to scientific works in Wikipedia. The analysis covered 332 million references in 61 million Wikipedia articles in 309 language versions. In order to standardize the metadata of important sources of information on multilingual Wikipedia, data from the OpenAlex, an open […]

#AMU #information sources #OpenAlex #reliability #Wikipedia #Wikipedia quality
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Automatic quality assessment of articles in multilingual Wikipedia and identification of its important information sources on various topics
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March 9, 2024 4 min

Automatic quality assessment of articles in multilingual Wikipedia and identification of its important information sources on various topics

An open scientific seminar of the Institute of Informatics and Quantitative Economics on automatic quality assessment of articles in multilingual Wikipedia and identification of important sources of its information on various topics was held at the Poznań University of Economics and Business. During the seminar, the methods and tools used to analyze and evaluate content […]

#artificial intelligence #DBpedia #PUEB #seminar #Wikidata #Wikipedia #Wikipedia quality
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Quantifying Americanization: A comparative analysis of information in Wikipedia
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January 13, 2024 2 min

Quantifying Americanization: A comparative analysis of information in Wikipedia

The research paper entitled “Quantifying Americanization: Coverage of American Topics in Different Wikipedias” was published in the Social Science Computer Review journal. This is the first quantitative study that confirms various theories about Americanization and related phenomena often discussed in scientific literature.

#open data #United States #Wikidata #Wikipedia
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Quality of content on Wikipedia and reliability of information sources
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January 5, 2024 4 min

Quality of content on Wikipedia and reliability of information sources

The latest issue of the ACADEMIA journal published an article that focuses on automating the process of assessing the quality of content in Wikipedia, an encyclopedia available in many languages. The publication draws attention to both the advantages and disadvantages of the open nature of Wikipedia, including differences in the systems for assessing the quality […]

#DBpedia #Polish Academy of Sciences #reliability #Wikidata #Wikipedia #Wikipedia quality
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Analysis of the use of scientific sources on Wikipedia depending on the topic and language
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December 29, 2023 3 min

Analysis of the use of scientific sources on Wikipedia depending on the topic and language

The paper entitled “Understanding the Use of Scientific References in Multilingual Wikipedia across Various Topics” was published in Elsevier’s Procedia Computer Science on ScienceDirect. As part of the scientific research, hundreds of millions of footnotes in Wikipedia articles from various language versions were analyzed to identify scientific sources of information. In addition, Wikipedia articles have […]

#DBpedia #reliability #Wikidata #Wikipedia #Wikipedia quality #WikiProjects
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From science to practice: identifying important sources of information on Wikipedia
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December 10, 2023 2 min

From science to practice: identifying important sources of information on Wikipedia

During the webinar, the possibilities of identifying and automatically assessing the significance of information sources of Wikipedia articles from different language versions were presented. As part of the practical part, some of the capabilities of the BestRef tool were shown, which contains information about the results of the evaluation of millions of Internet sources in […]

#reliability #webinar #Wikimedia #Wikipedia #Wikipedia quality
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Assessment results of millions of information sources on Wikipedia
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November 13, 2023 6 min

Assessment results of millions of information sources on Wikipedia

The principle of verifiability on Wikipedia mandates that all content must be verifiable by readers through reliable sources. Wikipedia insists on information being based on what has been previously reported in reputable publications, not the personal convictions or unpublished work of its contributors. If there are contrasting views from reliable sources, Wikipedia maintains an impartial […]

#information sources #reliability #Wikipedia #Wikipedia quality
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