On October 14th, Włodzimierz Lewoniewski received the Best Paper Award at the 23rd International Conference on Information and Software Technologies (ICIST 2017). The paper “Analysis of References Across Wikipedia Languages” was prepared together with Dr. Krzysztof Węcel and Prof. Witold Abramowicz. MSc. Lewoniewski is a PhD student at the Department of Information Systems and works on his doctoral thesis related to the comparing and enriching of information in various language … Read More
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Researchers’ Night 2017
As a part of the Researchers’ Night, which took place on September 29, 2017, scientists from the Department of Information Systems organized workshops “WHAT DO YOU THINK? GUIDE FOR SMALL PROGRAMMERS “(MSc. Piotr Kałużny, Dr. Bartosz Perkowski) for children aged 8 to 12 and “WHAT DO YOU THINK? INTERNET WITHOUT SECRETS” (Dr. Agnieszka Figiel, MSc. Agata Szyszko, MSc. Włodzimierz Lewoniewski) for people over 15 years old. Researchers’ Night is an … Read More
Lecture on the quality of Wikipedia in High School No. 12 in Poznań
On May 31, 2017 Włodzimierz Lewoniewski provided lectures and workshops for pupils of the High School no 12 in Poznań as part of the Infizmania project. The topic focused on the quality of information on Wikipedia in various languages. During the lectures pupils learned about the development and popularity of Wikipedia, its important principles, and the comparison with traditional encyclopaedias (such as Encyclopedia Britannica, Great PWN Encyclopedia, Great Soviet Encyclopedia). … Read More
Wikipedia References & Citations challenge
Dr. Krzysztof Węcel received the award for the best paper in the Wikipedia Citations and Reference Challenge on September 15, 2016, as part of the DBpedia Community Meeting organized at the SEMANTiCS2016 conference in Leipzig. The materials for the presentation entitled “(Not only) Polish citations – analysis, comparison, directions” were largely collected during the summer student internships organized by the Department of Information Systems under the Pro-Quality Grant. Apart from … Read More
Lecture on Wikipedia quality in Konin
On April 4, 2016, at the Stefan Batory Continuing Education Center School Complex in Konin, an open lecture entitled “Information quality in national versions of Wikipedia” was held. The lecture was conducted by Włodzimierz Lewoniewski.