Forget NY it’s Wikipedia that matters
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- Friday Fun: Gavin’s Wikipedia Page!
- Wikimedia Takes its Academic Approach to Africa
- Students Find That Wikipedians Are Tougher Graders Than Their…
Forget NY it’s Wikipedia that matters
Sydney Morning Herald – Oct 26, 2007
But these days it seems you haven’t really made itunless you have that most prized of status symbols – your very ownpage on Wikipedia. “It’s something of an honour” said journalist Howard Altman ofbeing added to the world’s largest online encyclopedia. “I actually had somebody say to me at a baseball game that I wasthe first person he knew on Wikipedia.
Wikipedia is a worthless primary source
Western Courier – Western Courier (subscription) – Oct 26, 2007
substring(0 thispageresult. Many universities forbid its use as a cited source on academic papers and the Web site itself offers a disclaimer about its content. Wikipedia acknowledges that it should not be used as a primary source for serious research. Still I find the amount of loathing directed at a seemingly benign encyclopedic Web site amazing. Last week during a lecture I raised my hand to discuss a topic the professor had addressed.
Friday Fun: Gavin’s Wikipedia Page!
SFist – Oct 26, 2007
There's lots of fun to be seen: – Someone with an AT&T account deleted a Michael Moore reference because "[Moore] is not an SF voter. – A probable Republican (other edits to Reagan's funeral and the.
Wikimedia Takes its Academic Approach to Africa
econtentmag.com – Oct 26, 2007
And in mid-November the foundation will continue its quest by co-hosting several Wikipedia Academies in South Africa with iCommons an organization that collaborates with open education open access publishing and free software companies in order to provide learning opportunities around the world. The goal of the Wikipedia Academies is to increase the number of Wikipedias in African languages and thereby broaden the knowledge base. “Currently Wikipedia has 250 language versions” says Sandra rdonez communications manager for the Wikimedia Foundation. “However there are around 7000 languages worldwide so we have a lot of work in front of us. “In the past the foundation has had several partnerships with other organizations that share the common goal of extending learning in disadvantaged communities… “In many disadvantaged communities” says rdonez “individuals have little if any access to educational resources. As such Wikipedia’s free content can be used to create a variety of free educational tools such as textbooks. “The Wikipedia project collects knowledge from all corners of the world in order to educate others. The impending Wikipedia Academies in South Africa aim to extend the reach of Wikipedia by preserving languages such as Maori and Swahili. Jimmy Wales founder of the Wikimedia Foundation says: “We believe that everyone in the world should have access to education regardless of race nationality gender age or economic background. We also believe that everyone has knowledge to contribute. Through the public’s support and the foundation’s continued efforts we expect to have a similar impact on communities in the most remote areas of the world as we have in more developed parts of the globe.
Students Find That Wikipedians Are Tougher Graders Than Their…
chronicle.com – Oct 26, 2007
That’s what a few students found out in a course taught last year by Martha Groom an associate professor of interdisciplinary arts and sciences at the University of Washington at Bothell. She required all of the 34 students in the course to write an article for their final class project and submit it to Wikipedia. By the end of the term all of the papers had met her standards — in fact she said the papers were generally the best she had ever had since students worked harder knowing their work would be seen by a wide audience. But one of the papers was rejected almost immediately by Wikipedians and four others were later removed by the community for not being up to the encyclopedia’s standards… Groom predicts that if the papers hadn’t been graded and revised before being posted on Wikipedia the number of rejected articles would have been much higher — she predicts that 20 percent of the 34 articles would have failed Wikipedia’s test. Groom discussed her experience with Wikipedia in the classroom at a session at Educause 2007 the annual education-technology conference which wraps up here today. ne of the biggest challenges for students was finding a topic that hadn’t already been covered in Wikipedia Ms. ne student ended up writing an entry on.
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