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most citedTelling Breaking News Stories from Wikipedia with Social Multimedia: A Case Study of the 2014 Winter Olympics

17 citations · 39 across the 6 of their papers we have counts for

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6 papers

cs.HC2021

Accessing HID Devices on the Web With the WebHID API: How to play the Chrome Dino Game by Jumping With a Nintendo Joy-Con Controller in One's Pocket

Thomas Steiner, François Beaufort

In this demonstration, we show how special hardware like Nintendo Joy-Con controllers can be made accessible from the Web through the new WebHID API. This novel technology proposal…

cs.IR2016

Wikipedia Tools for Google Spreadsheets

Thomas Steiner

In this paper, we introduce the Wikipedia Tools for Google Spreadsheets. Google Spreadsheets is part of a free, Web-based software office suite offered by Google within its Google…

cs.SI2015

Disaster Monitoring with Wikipedia and Online Social Networking Sites: Structured Data and Linked Data Fragments to the Rescue?

Thomas Steiner, Ruben Verborgh

In this paper, we present the first results of our ongoing early-stage research on a realtime disaster detection and monitoring tool. Based on Wikipedia, it is language-agnostic an…

cs.SI2014★ 17 cited

Telling Breaking News Stories from Wikipedia with Social Multimedia: A Case Study of the 2014 Winter Olympics

Thomas Steiner

With the ability to watch Wikipedia and Wikidata edits in realtime, the online encyclopedia and the knowledge base have become increasingly used targets of research for the detecti…

cs.DL2014★ 14 cited

Bots vs. Wikipedians, Anons vs. Logged-Ins

Thomas Steiner

Wikipedia is a global crowdsourced encyclopedia that at time of writing is available in 287 languages. Wikidata is a likewise global crowdsourced knowledge base that provides share…

cs.SI2013★ 8 cited

MJ no more: Using Concurrent Wikipedia Edit Spikes with Social Network Plausibility Checks for Breaking News Detection

Thomas Steiner, Seth van Hooland, Ed Summers

We have developed an application called Wikipedia Live Monitor that monitors article edits on different language versions of Wikipedia, as they happen in realtime. Wikipedia articl…