WikiCite 2017 was a 3-day conference, summit and hack
day hosted in Vienna, Austria, on May 23-25, 2017. It expands efforts
started with WikiCite
2016 to design a central bibliographic repository, as well as tools and
strategies to improve information quality and verifiability in Wikimedia
projects. Its goal is to bring together Wikimedia contributors, data modelers,
information and library science experts, software engineers, designers and
academic researchers who have experience working with Wikipedia's citations and
bibliographic data.
Factors associated with Wikipedia citations versus traditional citations to research articles - Fereshteh Didegah
Notes:
Traditional citations indicators of only scientific impact since they are generated only by scientists
- Wikipedia citations show impact of scientific research on general public
- % cited on Web of Science vs. Wikipedia
- sample of articles highly cited and uncited on Wikipedia
- Journal impact factor and accessibility most important factors
- Articles with shorter titles are more likely to be cited
- Green & gold OA articles more cited in WOS & Wikipedia