A Comparison of the Historical Entries in Wikipedia and Baidu Baike

This research chose two representative online encyclopedias, Wikipedia (English) and Baidu Baike, to compare their performance on historical entries. This research purposefully chose 6 entries and developed a framework to evaluate their performance in accuracy, breadth, depth, informativeness, conci...

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Published inTransforming Digital Worlds pp. 74 - 80
Main Author Shang, Wenyi
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published Cham Springer International Publishing
SeriesLecture Notes in Computer Science
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Baidu Baike
Entry quality
Historical entries
Wikipedia
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Summary:This research chose two representative online encyclopedias, Wikipedia (English) and Baidu Baike, to compare their performance on historical entries. This research purposefully chose 6 entries and developed a framework to evaluate their performance in accuracy, breadth, depth, informativeness, conciseness and objectiveness. The result shows that: Wikipedia is superior in most cases while Baidu Baike is a little better in the entries on Chinese history. The operating mechanism is the main reason for it. The result implies that in the field of history, well-established online encyclopedias can be reliable for common users although improvement such as developing operating mechanisms is still needed.
ISBN:3319781049
9783319781044
ISSN:0302-9743
1611-3349
DOI:10.1007/978-3-319-78105-1_9