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From who and what to how and why – the future of online encyclopedias

This paper discusses changes in the structure of knowledge, the increasing demand for abilities of search and retrieval, assessment and evaluation, organization and creative use of relevant information. Today, users are finding content through search engines. This requires a different approach to the organization of encyclopaedias and other lexicographical issues. All can be found, but it is also important to know where and how to look for it. Even Google cannot answer all questions. If we take as a criterion of quality those 5 eternal journalistic questions (who, what, where, when, why) we will easily find that the answers to the questions asked by the first four interrogative pronouns are always relatively available, even adequate, accurate and sufficient, while things usually get stuck when you start a question with why. The conducted research centred around the quality of "coverage" of some, in Croatia well known, lexical units, in different Wikipedias: four regional languages and editions (Croatian, Bosnian, Serbian, Serbo-Croatian), and four world languages (English, French, German and Spanish).

online encyclopedias; Wikipedia; Internet; Croatia; Serbia; Bosnia

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