Microsoft Encarta Dies After Long Battle With Wikipedia
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Microsoft Encarta Dies After Long Battle With Wikipedia
New York Times
In January Wikipedia got 97 percent of the visits that Web surfers in the United States made to online encyclopedias according to the Internet ratings service Hitwise. Encarta was second with 1. Unlike Wikipedia where volunteer editors quickly update popular entries Encarta can be embarrassingly outdated.
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University confronts cheats in the age of Wikipedia
Canada.com
Eerkes was speaking to a group of students hammering home the importance of citing every source used in an essay. “I was really going hard on this and everyone is nodding saying ‘K K we got it’ ” she says. “Then at the very end one person puts up his hand and says ‘What about Wikipedia? Do we have to cite that?’ “In a digital world where people regularly download songs from the Internet share personal pictures on Facebook and update their whereabouts on Twitter it’s apparent that today’s students may have a different attitude toward the concept of information ownership. It’s also one of the reasons why the university is working extra hard to develop a culture of academic fair play. So far those efforts appear to be paying off. In the 2007-08 school year the U of A handed out 200 sanctions for plagiarism up 43 per cent from two years earlier. Sanctions for cheating went up more than 60 per cent.
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