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36

Title of the submission

How information on Wikipedia spreads to other media

Type of submission (workshop, tutorial, panel, presentation)

Presentation

Author of the submission
  • MADe (Belgium; author, speaker)
  • contributors of several smaller wikis (Polish, Bulgarian, Indish language) as well as the big ones (English, French, German).
E-mail address or username (if username, please confirm email address in Special:Preferences)

MADe

Country of origin

Belgium

Affiliation, if any (organization, company etc.)

None

Abstract (please use no less than 300 words to describe your proposal)

Wikipedia is an important source of information on the internet. This presentation focuses on:

  • which organisations use our information? Newspapers and other news websites, wikipedia-mirrors, discussion forums, search engines, other informational websites, metasites like Wolfram Alpha, Google cache...
  • What types of information do they use (content of the infoboxes, the text, images & video's, external links on the page, content from other wikimedia-projects like wikibooks or wikinews, geographical information, ...)
  • How do errors in Wikiprojects spread into other media? If an error is corrected in a wikipedia article, how long does it take for "the internet" to correct itself? Or does the wrong information stays online forever?
  • How can we avoid errors to spread? Can this help us to fine-tune our anti-vandalism tools?
  • And finally, how can we prevent wrong information to stay online forever? More frequent database dumps, wikipedia API, improved copyright warnings, ....
Track (People and Community/Knowledge and Collaboration/Infrastructure)

Community/Knowledge

Will you attend Wikimania if your submission is not accepted?

No

Slides or further information (optional)
  • I await the confirmation of my scholarship. Without a scholarship, I will not attend the conference.
  • This presentation is based on the presentation at Wikimania Gdansk (2010). During that conference, I came into contact with a lot of new people. Thanks to them I extended the presentation with more examples.
  • The content and tone of this presentation (professional, informative, amusing) will depend on the schedule.

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