Many authors have argued that digital technologies enable collaboration without central oversight or authority, obviating the need for hierarchical bureaucracies characterize industrial capitalism. In this context, Wikipedia is often mentioned as a paradigmatic example. We draw on classical accounts of Robert Michels and Max Weber to study mechanisms pushing towards away from power concentratio...

We investigate whether the Wikipedia corpus is amenable to multilingual analysis that aims at generating parallel corpora. We present the results of the application of two simple heuristics for the identification of similar text across multiple languages in Wikipedia. Despite the simplicity of the methods, evaluation carried out on a sample of Wikipedia pages shows encouraging results.

Wikipedia is a well known online encyclopedia, which is open to everyone. It is based on a collaborative authoring principle, which gives a great value to the online encyclopedia. Due to this fact the Wikipedia has over three millions articles in English. Nowadays, the speed of increasing amount of articles is getting slower, but still remains stunning. The Wikipedia attracts millions of visito...

BACKGROUND Wikipedia is an important source of medical information for both patients and medical professionals. Given its wide reach, improving the quality, completeness, and accessibility of medical information on Wikipedia could have a positive impact on global health. OBJECTIVE We created a prototypical implementation of an automated system for keeping drug-drug interaction (DDI) informati...