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T he future of online encyclopedias

T he future of online encyclopedias. Prof. dr. sc. Nenad Prelog nenad@edemokracija.hr University of Zadar Dr.sc. Domagoj Bebić domagoj@edemokracija.hr Faculty of Political Science.  CD or DVD Academic American Encyclopaedia: 1985 Grolier Multimedia Encyclopaedia: 1992

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T he future of online encyclopedias

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  1. The future of online encyclopedias Prof. dr. sc. Nenad Prelog nenad@edemokracija.hr University of Zadar Dr.sc. Domagoj Bebić domagoj@edemokracija.hr Faculty of Political Science

  2.  CD or DVD Academic American Encyclopaedia: 1985 Grolier Multimedia Encyclopaedia: 1992 Compton's Encyclopaedia: 1992 Encarta: 1993  online Britannica Online: 1994 25 years only

  3. Wikipedia - 2001 19,000 articles 2002 - 50,000 articles 2003 - 111,000 articles 2004 - 500,000 articles, 50% in English 2006 - 3,700,000 articles, 1,350,000 in English 2007 > 8,000,000 articles in 250 languages, 2,250,000 in English Croatian version - > 40,000 articles (Serbian 60,000, Bosnian 22,000, “Serbo-croatian"15,000) The goal at the beginning was 100,000 articles, it was realised in less than 2 years Wiki maintains 15 different services Interconnected information bases developed by users Between top ten sites in many countries Wiki: from idea to movement

  4. Relevance vs. quality • Whenever one term is relevant, or there is great interest for it, it is greater probability corrections will be implemented sooner. Big number of readers/reviewers/ authors are sensitive on wrong or biased data issues. Regarding this topic more numbers of wrong or biased data exist in articles which have not been visited frequently. The quality of texts is approximately equal to the interest, and number of reviewers ensures accuracy and precision of the material.

  5. User centred organisation • In time of information which are hard to verify (media confidence is very low) users would like to find/know unbiased information with relevant facts • Users are not interested in knowledge per se, but interested in answers

  6. Research: Analysys of the representation of prominent individuals in the four editions in the “region”(HR, BS, SR, SH), and four world languages (English/EN, French/FR, German (GE) and Spanish (SP). At the very beginning we chose the subjects: seven prominent members of the Department of Literature of HAZU (Croatian Academy of Arts and Sciences), and 5 well-known writers who are not members of the Academy. We took into account only active individuals.

  7. Croatian Authors

  8. Comments (1) None of the authors has an article in all the languages. Pavao Pavličić and Dubravka Ugrešić have articles in the most editions and they have the most lines: Ugrešić 430, Pavličić 330. Pavličić is the only one represented in all the world languages we took into account other than Spanish.

  9. Comments (2) ...out of the 12 monitored authors only 2 are represented in the Serbian edition, 4 in Serbo-Croatian, and 7 in the Bosnian edition.

  10. Croatian Athletes

  11. Comments (1) Janica Kostelić and Blanka Vlašić are the only ones represented in all languages/editions, and Goran Ivanišević still has far greater significance to other (international) languages, than in his own region.

  12. Comments (2) Toni Kukoč and Ivano Balić are in every edition except Serbo-Croatian while Davor Šuker does not exist in the Serbian and Serbo-Croatian edition.

  13. Bosnian Authors

  14. Serbian Authors

  15. End Comments • In time of information which are hard to verify (media confidence is very low) users would like to find/know unbiased information with relevant facts • Users are not interested in knowledge per se, but interested in answers

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