Early response to false claims in Wikipedia, 15 years later

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  • P.D. Magnus University at Albany, SUNY

DOI:

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

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Wikipedia

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.

Author Biography

P.D. Magnus, University at Albany, SUNY

P.D. Magnus is a professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University at Albany, State University of New York.

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2023-09-12

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Magnus, P. (2023). Early response to false claims in Wikipedia, 15 years later. First Monday, 28(9). https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v28i9.12912

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Volume 28, Number 9 - 4 September 2023

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