Department of Information Systems
Poznań University of Economics and Business
During the international conference Wikimania 2024, a panel discussion entitled “Keynote: Opening the Academia” took place, in which Dr. Włodzimierz Lewoniewski participated. The panel concerned the topic of open science and its various aspects. In particular, the challenges faced by academic institutions that try to implement the principles of open science and the obstacles that hinder these processes were discussed. The role of Wikimedia projects, such as Wikipedia, in the … Read More
During the Wikimania 2024 conference, the results of scientific research on measuring Americanization in various regions of the world based on open data from Wikipedia and Wikidata were presented. The conducted research reveals differences in interest in American topics depending on the level of development of countries, offering a new perspective on global cultural dominance. At the same time, the analysis emphasizes the role of Wikipedia and Wikidata as tools … Read More
An international Wikimania conference was held in Stockholm, Sweden, from 14-18 August, with about 800 participants. During the conference, Dr. Włodzimierz Lewoniewski delivered a research “Multilingual Ranking of Wikipedia Articles with Quality and Popularity Assessment“. Wikimania is an annual conference celebrating all free knowledge projects run by the Wikimedia Foundation – Commons, MediaWiki, Meta-Wiki, Wikibooks, Wikidata, Wikinews, Wikipedia, Wikiquote, Wikisource, Wikispecies, Wikiversity, Wikivoyage, Wiktionary – with three-day conferences, discussions, meetings, … Read More
On July 18-22 Wikimania 2018 conference took place, during which the results of the most important findings of Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects for the last year were presented. In particular, the research of scientists from the Poznań University of Economics and Business has been presented – “Relative Quality and Popularity Evaluation of Multilingual Wikipedia Articles” (authors: Włodzimierz Lewoniewski, Krzysztof Węcel, Witold Abramowicz). The research concerns the automatic evaluation of … Read More