14.09.2015
Diffusion des savoirs scientifiques, Enseignement supérieur et recherche, Innovation, Ressources scientifiques et techniques
Elsevier access donations help Wikipedia editors improve science articles
« A recent article in MIT Technology Review speaks of a “quiet revolution occurring in the way science diffuses into the public consciousness.” According to the authors, increasingly the public is reading about science on Wikipedia, the crowd-sourced online encyclopedia.
Since its launch in 2001, Wikipedia has grown to become the sixth most trafficked website in the world, with 8,000 views per second and 500 million unique visitors each month. For many, it is the first stop in almost any information quest (…) »