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| | Meatball Wiki: WikiPedia |
 | | Since WikiPedia uses wiki software, it is similar to the many other wikis on the WorldWideWeb. | | | On June 20, 2003, Jimbo Wales [announced the formation of the Wikimedia Foundation], a non-profit organization that will serve as the parent of WikiPedia, the WiktionaryProject, and various other projects in development. | | | Why does this wiki, for example, still exist when every topic available is already mentioned on WikiPedia with a larger audience and more in-depth information? |
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| | Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | If you are interested in using the wiki technology for a collaborative effort on something else, even if it is just a single page, there are many sites that provide wiki hosting (free or for money). | | | For a wiki-like site that will publish your original thoughts, see Everything2. | | | If you have done primary research on a topic, publish your results in other venues such as peer-reviewed journals, other printed forms, or respected online sites. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_Wikipedia_is_not
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| | Nivi : Wikipedia Defeats Google (Sometimes) |
| | Google’s search engine is limited by what a computer can do. | | | When you do a search on Google, computers work and come up with a result. | | | Google uses closed-source, proprietary algorithms to give you information about a subject. |
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http://www.nivi.com/blog/article/wikipedia-defeats-google-sometimes
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| | apophenia: Academia and Wikipedia |
| | That is, aside from the lack of editors and fact-checker research staff, you simply can't cite to a wikipedia article and be assured that it won't change tomorrow and say something different. | | | Maybe there's a way to have an archived link citation format where you can be sure that a citation always pointed to the *page you read when doing research on a particular day*. | | | I think it's a perfect example of how we're advancing toward a more sophisticated level of knowledge. |
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http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2005/01/04/academia_and_wikipedia.html
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| | Wiki Pedia |
| | This wiki is a history of computing which includes developing ideas, processes and procedures, while WikiPedia is a record of what has already been and does not have the same sense of evolution. | | | My question was why it developed such generally different dynamics than at least most other wikis, and I'm wondering if the lack of discussion on the top level might be part of it. | | | The very nature of an encyclopedia is to provide a summary and overview of current knowledge. |
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http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WikiPedia
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| | Phantom authority |
| | In their case, the positive externality generated by increasing the size of the network provides a stronger incentive that outweighs the assumption of club theory that there is value in exclusivity. | | | The contributors may and should, in such a case, take the database and the software and set up a competing project [15]. | | | A Wiki community is open in the sense that it allows anyone to participate, freely viewing information contained in a site, permitting editing of that information as well [9]. |
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http://www.firstmonday.dk/issues/issue8_12/ciffolilli
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| | Poynter Online - Wikipedia for Journalists |
| | But first time visitors are typically impressed with what the community has developed, considering the decentralized nature of the effort and the usefulness of its content. | | | We have used it in undergraduate and graduate journalism classes to teach the skill of writing dispassionately for an international audience. | | | It has thousands of international contributors and is the largest example of an open content wiki. |
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http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=32&aid=62126
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| | Amy Proctor - Amy Proctor - To Wikipedia or Not to Wikipedia, That is the Question |
| | In my field (Library Science) it's becoming a huge issue lately: now that you can just Google anything, people are looking to the internet for fast, easy answers instead of to more reliable sources. | | | Guys, there is no resource on the planet that you can simply read and accept without evaluation and consideration. | | | What many don’t know is that Wikiedia has been, in large part, created by users. |
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http://amyproctor.squarespace.com/blog/2006/1/12/to-wikipedia-or-not-to-wikipedia-that-is-the-question.html
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| | Lawrence Lessig |
| | No one will learn particle physics from the wikipedia, and no one’s worldview will be fundementally altered by the wikipedia (hubris and bluster from Mr. | | | Second, clearly there is a lot of work to be done in finding ways to actually distribute the work we have done already into areas where people can use it. | | | that’s one reason why the wikipedia is so great. |
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| | Wiki is not paper - Meta |
| | But any encyclopedic subject of interest should be covered, in whatever depth is possible. | | | He adds, "And of course, the open nature of the software means that enforcement only comes to the extent that we authors care to enforce it." | | | In this way, brief overviews can become detailed treatises (although they should still start with a brief overview). |
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| | The Aardvark Speaks: Why Wikipedia sucks. Big time. |
| | I don't understand why you think that wikipedia is so much worse than other websites. | | | Again, this is not about correcting mistakes that have been made (because this task is simply impossible in such a big project), but avoiding the mistakes in the first place. | | | I have participated in several language versions of the project for a couple of months, and have lost all faith in the project ever turning into something useful. |
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http://homepage.univie.ac.at/horst.prillinger/blog/archives/2004/06/000623.html
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| | Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: The amorality of Web 2.0 |
| | The question stemming from the argument does not apply to an antagonism between professional and amateurish contribution, but whether the principles that pertain to professional work might be implemented "outside" the experts within a distributed, self-organizing information structure. | | | I.e., you can have 100 monkeys clattering away on keyboards in an open environment, and mathematics may tell you that they will eventually produce the collected works of Shakespeare, but it takes less time and less trash is produced if you have Shakespeare do it. | | | You might be happy to know that both articles you have mentioned have been since added to cleanup projects, in addition to broader discussions about ways to improve writing quality. |
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http://www.roughtype.com/archives/2005/10/the_amorality_o.php
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| | Burningbird » Yo! Sock Puppets! |
| | At the same time, it is unequivocally less open than the larger worldwide web, where anyone who is literate, can afford a computer, an internet connection, hosting services, and the time, can contribute to the “knowledge” on the web. | | | The fact of the matter is that all sources of information are not of equal value, and I don’t know how or when it became impolitic to suggest it. | | | You see, much of the information you mention, like date of birth, and other biographical information is either missing from the web or scattered about and difficult to piece together. |
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http://weblog.burningbird.net/2005/12/21/yo-sock-puppets
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| | wikipedians: A Wikipedia "Pearl Harbor"... |
| | Not that I know much about wikipedia's mechanics, but based on what others have said about this question so far, I'll hazard a guess that an arbitrary code execution vulnerability would be the biggest concern. | | | Mind you, it'd probably take out most of the country's computers at the same time, too. | | | In addition to that, I believe there's mechanisms in place to do things like revert all the changes made in a particular time period. |
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| | Wikipedia:Simple English Wikipedia - Simple English Wikipedia |
| | For example, it is more important to explain slang, idiom, and jargon in Simple English. | | | Also, it is good to constantly look at all versions in all languages, to get new ideas. | | | Writers can also use a special system, for example Basic English. |
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| | ongoing · Wikipedia Again |
| | Perhaps a brief survey of how that is conventionally done would be helpful; the title of this section, while meant to be amusing, is a fair description. | | | Which is to say, at the moment that an encyclopedia is printed or blasted onto disk, it’s obsolete. | | | McHenry’s randomly-chosen entry turned out to be flawed and inconsistent, and Alex Halavais showed that you can introduce errors which will not immediately be corrected. |
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http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2004/12/06/Trustipedia
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| | Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not - Simple English Wikipedia |
| | You can write an article on how a slang phrase came to be, or the culture that uses that slang. | | | Please do not chat on an article or its talk page. | | | It may be too difficult for some users to understand. |
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| | Wikinfo Critical views of Wikipedia |
| | Thus, outsiders, new users, and those constructively critical are often blocked from discussions under vague allegations, such as "trolling", or being a known "problem user". | | | Is the fact that it's a wiki relevant to the question?" | | | This is exacerbated whenever voting mechanisms instead of consensus mechanisms are used, such as the Votes for Deletion process. |
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| | Wired 13.03: The Book Stops Here |
| | Lurking in the underbrush of Wikipedia's idyllic forest of reason and good intentions are contributors less noble in purpose, whose numbers are multiplying. | | | All work should be approached with the assumption that the author is trying to help the project, not harm it. | | | Fixing its contents in a book or on a CD or DVD is tantamount to embalming a living thing. |
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| | ...My heart's in Accra : Ethan's Weblog - My blog is in Cambridge, but my heart's in Accra |
| | While Linux, Apache and other high-quality open source software convinced most in the technical community that "commons based peer production" is one of the most powerful methods to create robust software, it's been harder for non-geeks to understand the strange and wonderful processes that turn distributed effort into remarkably large and useful works. | | | Nigeria's brilliant author, Chinua Achebe gets a 1582 byte "stub" of an article, while the GSM mobile phone standard gets 16,500 bytes of main entry, with dozens of related articles. | | | It's got a problem common to almost all peer production projects: people work on what they want to work on. |
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| | Wikipedia - Encyclopedia Dramatica |
| | Previous encyclopedias were well-researched and contained precise information that could be trusted to be correct. | | | Create a user page so you look legit. | | | Señor Pelican Shit - Who found wikipedia lacked information on Pelican Shit and was not afraid to add as much of it as possible. |
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| | The Wikipedia Hive Mind |
| | Of course not — information wants to be free, and nothing must stand in its way. | | | For me, the two issues stem from a common problem, and both share the same first step toward a solution. | | | The first is that anyone can edit an article, and there is no guarantee that any article you read has not been edited maliciously, and remains uncorrected in that state, at the precise time that you access that article. |
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| | Nick Douglas » Why Wikipedia must not jettison its anti-elitism |
| | You can see the reactionary core of the academy playing out in the horror around Google digitizing books held at Harvard and the Library of Congress — the NY Times published a number of letters by people insisting that real scholarship would still only be possible when done in real libraries. | | | The root problem: anti-elitism, or lack of respect for expertise. | | | Sanger claims that “people use many sources that they themselves believe to be unreliable.” His other example? |
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| | Wikipedia - Uncyclopedia |
| | Most personalites are diguised robots that are able to break Asimov's first law of robotics, | | | I hate the word, as I hate hell, all Montagues, and you, Jimmy." - Oscar Wilde (to Jimmy) | | | Removing important information, information which the administers feel personally threatening because they are informative, and adding space where no space should be. |
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| | ATPM 12.01 - Candy Apple: Wikipedia Is Not the Lovefest We Thought |
| | We already knew that the “anyone can edit” approach made it possible to distribute false information, but now it sounds like there are some folks who have very personal issues with the site. | | | ATPM: An e-zine about the personal computing experience. | | | It is far too messy for someone new to the game to guess at who has done what wrongs to whom. |
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| | BBC - h2g2 - Wikipedia |
| | A number of sites on the Internet use Wiki as the basis of their operation. | | | All encyclopedias have errors and bias in them, so you should always check your facts by reference to other sources. | | | It has been in operation since January 2001 and and as of October 2005 contained more than 750,000 articles in English and over a million in other languages. |
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| | Yahoo! Search blog: Going deeper into the Wikipedia |
| | and wikipedia in showing the subsections -- spamming of wikipedia might become a huge problem when the spammer knows exactly where to place their links for each search. | | | Soon the internet will become "the world" and everything will follow wikipedia exemple. | | | I'm interested of building up more unique content on the web, but of course, I'd like to make it in the way that yahoo engines could crawl the site rightly. |
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| | Intrepid Media: The Empire Of You |
| | One might be tempted, I'm sure, to point to the Google Zeitgeist for a quickie. | | | What you might not know is how it works. | | | This, of course, means that you should never trust the information as absolute fact. |
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| | Yahoo! Search blog: Jimmy Wales on Wikipedia and Yahoo! |
| | Anyway, something is already written about them and it is reasonable to expect that soon more will be added. | | | It is written by Internet users and edited by Internet users. | | | The problem with criticising the wikipedia is that it's a self-defeating exercise. |
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| | Wikipedia founder admits to serious quality problems The Register |
| | Criticism of the project from within the inner sanctum has been very rare so far, although fellow co-founder Larry Sanger, who is no longer associated with the project, pleaded with the management to improve its content by befriending, and not alienating, established sources of expertise. | | | Emphasis is placed on the knowledgeable articles (by any yardstick, it's excellent for Klingon, BSD Unix, and Ayn Rand), the breadth of its entries (Klingon again), and process issues such as speed. | | | Something that aspires to be a reference work ought to be judged by the quality of the worst entry, he said, in response to the clock-stopped, right-time defense of the project, not by the fact it's got some good articles. |
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| | edugadget » Blog Archive » Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Update: For more information on the process of wikis, please see Brian Lamb’s article in Educause Review. | | | I think it will help provide a structured (time-saving) way to find information on a subject. | | | While there sometimes is a problem with people “vandalizing” the wiki, there are people who are notified when changes are made and, if necessary, correct it. |
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http://www.edugadget.com/2005/01/22/wikipedia-the-free-encyclopedia
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| | Who's afraid of Wikipedia?. Many-to-Many: |
| | There is a good reason why the "OSI Reference Model" article might be usable: it's a techie topic. | | | There are articles, as danah has pointed out, where it would be far better to go to the primary sources, but that would be as true were a student to cite any encyclopedia. | | | It is due to the massively decentralised nature of wikipedia that we don't and wouldn't want to ensure that all articles are of similar quality, though we do have a system to mark that an article has surpassed a certain threshold (featuring). |
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http://many.corante.com/archives/2005/02/28/whos_afraid_of_wikipedia.php
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| | BBC NEWS Technology Wikipedia survives research test |
| | The reviewers were asked to check for errors, but were not told about the source of the information. | | | It is based on wikis, open-source software which lets anyone fiddle with a webpage, anyone reading a subject entry can disagree, edit, add, delete, or replace the entry. | | | The British journal Nature examined a range of scientific entries on both works of reference and found few differences in accuracy. |
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| | The Highlighter. » Blog Archive » To Wikipedia or not to Wikipedia |
| | This is ofcourse both good and bad, good because it has probably everything that is already listed in other encyclopedias in the world, and much more, in many different languages; but it is also bad because it can be edited by anyone, including Anonymous users. | | | On the other hand, a bias may be present -and- far better concealed in these books and websites | | | This assumptions of people will lead to many believing what they read. |
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http://thehighlighter.co.uk/2006/03/12/to-wikipedia-or-not-to-wikipedia
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| | BBC NEWS Technology What is it with Wikipedia? |
| | The publishers of other encyclopaedias, especially the Encyclopaedia Britannica, have been similarly negative about the project, although they have a commercial interest in undermining the use of this free online resource so are not completely neutral. | | | Of course, now that a printed version of the German edition is to be made available this may not keep them out of the courts, at least over in Europe. | | | It is the same with search engine results. |
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| | Wikipedia - Wikiquote |
| | Because of a change in the settings of this wiki, the "E-mail this user" function will not work anymore if you do not confirm your e-mail address | | | Wikimedia Commons has more images and possibly other types of media related to: | | | Critique given by former Encyclopædia Britannica editor Robert McHenry in an oft-cited 2004 piece The Faith-Based Encyclopedia. |
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| | ActoNetwork Wikipedia is Not the Next Google |
| | A fundamental principle of developing a successful business is to increase dependencies on your offering; to "lock in" your customers. | | | This is fine until you start getting big and people start becoming dependent upon you. | | | There just isn't enough incentive to make such things big and valuable. |
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http://www.actonetwork.com/blog/blog/actonetwork/google/2005/12/01/wikipedia_is_not_the_next_google
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| | ITworld.com - Chinese censors block access to Wikipedia |
| | The site, which draws on the efforts of around 100 regular contributors, mostly in mainland China, has grown from more than 9,000 entries in mid-May to 10,915 entries. | | | The convergence of networking technologies today is creating powerful new ways for enterprises to improve their performance. | | | In addition, the site, which has had a low profile and a relatively small group of regular contributors, was seen as a gauge of government tolerance for the free flow of information on the Internet in China. |
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| | Joho the Blog: Wikipedia's long tail |
| | Jimmy Wales has apparently said that research he did in December 2004 showed that about half the edits done by logged-in users are done by 2.5% of logged-in users. | | | The question was whether the quality of those articles is as good as that of the oft-edited ones. | | | If so, is there any way to check the quality (accuracy, relevance, completeness, neutrality?) of the long tail articles? |
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| | TECTONIC: Opinion: Wikipedia should be your first - not final - reference |
| | Placing more restrictions on the ability of users to share information will more likely kill the project than make it stronger. | | | Chuck the idea that it must be authoritative, add a stronger and more prominent disclaimer, and let's continue sharing what we know. | | | People who modify existing articles, however, will still be able to do so without registering. |
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| | PCWorld.com - Chinese Build Free Net Encyclopedia |
| | But wikis are essentially online databases of information and each modification is stored in the database, allowing information to be restored to the Web site if a page is deleted or defaced. | | | The neutral point of view is intended to avoid editing wars between contributors competing to impose their interpretation of various subjects on other readers. | | | They consider their government to be reasonable, so long as one does nothing insane to offend the government," Menchi says, noting that some contributors from Mainland China have suggested toning down entries on politically sensitive topics, such as Tibetan independence. |
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| | Rory Blyth - Neopoleon.com |
| | The best bit about wikipedia is that it's the definitive source of information about the klingon empire :-) | | | Funny thing is that the wikipedia did not have a definition either, so I added it there too. | | | Somebody put the word Shuttlecock in your wiki dictionary and that's not even a word! |
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| | Online Wikipedia is not Britannica - but it's close csmonitor.com |
| | Such projects might require more funds than donations would provide, raising the possibility of allowing advertisements on the currently ad-free site. | | | So are mainland Chinese and Taiwanese, who have created about 51,000 articles so far. | | | Most growth in the use of wikis is by businesses and in academia on sites either too obscure to be found by the general public or protected by passwords. |
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| | Wired News: Not Your Father's Encyclopedia |
| | Initially, he thought the project wouldn't work, but soon discovered that communal knowledge reigned over anarchy. | | | The project has also spawned a sister project called Wiktionary, a free multilingual dictionary and thesaurus. | | | The surge in growth has made it the world's largest and fastest growing open-content encyclopedia, according to its founders. |
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| | Wikipedia slander? News.blog CNET News.com |
| | Much of what I see there is quite good, at least so far as I can judge; but where my knowledge has gaps, I can't really know the quality of the information, and since it's anonymously-written, there's no way to judge anyone's credentials, or if they even have any. | | | Since people generally use any reference source to look up things they don't know, that lack of accountability is a problem." | | | "This kind of stuff is just funny these days...actually, it's the people who actually think that wikipedia is a viable source of reference that is funny." |
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| | Fast Company Now |
| | Just pick the smear you think will hurt most and write it in. | | | I and many other students I know have used wikipedia in the past but we all understand that it is not a reliable source in terms of it being quotable, etc. However, I personally and others I know, have found it excellent as a springboard for ideas. | | | However Brittanica's paltry number of articles with it's antiquated and biased information gathering and editing capabilities are no match for the shear power of community based knowledge aggregation. |
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| | Jihad Watch: Why Wikipedia won't work |
| | A more potent question is, “How can anyone use this as a source? | | | Google is a far better way to get information, all though you do have to go to all that horrible trouble of thinking and evaluating sources for yourself when you use Google. | | | Before leaving he complained that several changes which I thought were his were not. |
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| | The Great Wikipedia Authority Debate: Corante > The Importance of... > |
| | Fasoldt has not taken the challenge, but Alex Halavais, an Assistant Professor of Communication and the Director of the Masters in Informatics program within the School of Informatics at the University at Buffalo, has (The Isuzu Experiment): | | | The columnist ends his piece by stating: "you need to be careful about trusting what you read," while taking this email from a random librarian completely at face value. | | | Her thread regards a debate about digital ethics, which is worth following as well. |
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| | IWJ Blog: Wikipedia Joke Not So Funny |
| | He said the episode does not indicate a systemic problem. | | | We were close friends until his death, and the most painful thing was to have them suggest that I was suspected of their assassination," Seigenthaler said. | | | He has apologized profusely to Seigenthaler and in various statements to the press. |
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| | Jonathan D. Nolen - Wikipedia is not infallible; but then neither are we |
| | I have just re-read all of the Hitchhiker books in preparation for the movie, and I'm crushed that it never occurred to me do an article on the uncanny similarities between the two works. | | | With wikipedia, it's all out in the open. | | | You can see what articles were added and deleted; sentences that were excised as incorrect or non-nuetral; arguments that the community had over facts and opinions; who eventually won and why. |
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