Research on the quality of information and the reliability of sources on Wikipedia

Perhaps for some it will be surprising and even outrageous, but information on Wikipedia should not be truthful, it is important that it is confirmed by reliable sources. The last issue of the outgoing 2020 Wikimedia Research Showcase was dedicated to the problem of disinformation and the reliability of Wikipedia sources. This is a monthly public event that features the latest work from the Wikimedia Foundation Research Group and invited speakers from the academic community. I was given the opportunity to talk about the latest scientific work carried out jointly with the staff of our department. In this article on Habré, I will try to briefly describe the latest research of our department in the field of assessing the quality of information and the reliability of sources in the multilingual Wikipedia.Additionally, there are publicly available tools for assessing quality and reliability based on scientific research.





Research on the quality of information and the reliability of sources on Wikipedia

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