The best information sources of Wikipedia

The BestRef database contains results of assessment of 3,751,566 websites in each of 308 language versions of Wikipedia. Based on analysis of 61.81 million Wikipedia articles it was possible to extract information about 336.44 million references in October 2023. This allowed to identify the best information sources of Wikipedia using different assessment models.

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1web.archive.org

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14archive.today

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30telegraph.co.uk

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32ghostarchive.org

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39en.wikipedia.org

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40britannica.com

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76officialcharts.com

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81nikkansports.com

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82showbuzzdaily.com

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86instagram.com

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94indiatoday.in

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99bloomberg.com

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119books.google.es

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