Wikipedia Virginia Tech Massacre entry on Wikipedia and
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Wikipedia
Virginia Tech Massacre entry on Wikipedia and how it grew and grew…. some people turned to that site first for their news.
• Schiff, New Yorker • If you look up “coffee preparation” on Wikipedia, you will find your way, via the entry on Espresso, to a piece on types of espresso machines, which you will want to consult before buying.
history “The encyclopedic impulse dates back more than two thousand years…. ” this is Robert Darnton, Princeton History Prof. ; expert on Encyclopedia history
Darnton Studied encylopedias in 18 th Century France; Encyclopedias were forums for debate!
• First encyclopedias: developed from the dictionary in the 18 th century • They offered a forum for controversy and debate • People used to gather around encyclopedia readers and debate how true the content was.
Schiff: “Bayle taught readers to doubt, a lesson in subversion that Diderot and d’Alembert, the authors of the Encyclopédie (1751 -80), learned well. Their thirty-five-volume work preached rationalism at the expense of church and state. The more stolid Britannica was born of cross-channel rivalry and an Anglo-Saxon passion for utility. ”
Some of the problems with Wikipedia: Is it accurate? Schiff: “Is Wikipedia accurate? Last year, Nature published a survey comparing forty-two entries on scientific topics on Wikipedia with their counterparts in Encyclopædia Britannica. ” Britannica fights back Wikipedia and Essjay Controversy Call for accuracy in Wikipedia
If: Book • we should learn how to read Wikipedia in the fullest way: by exploring the discussion pages and revision histories that contextualize each article, and to get involved ourselves as writers and editors. Take a look at the page on global warming, and then pop over to its editorial discussion, with over a dozen archived pages going back to December, 2001. Dense as hell, full of struggle. • “To roam its pages is to be in contact, whether directly or subliminally, with a powerful new idea of how information gets made. And it's far from safe. ”
• Mohammad and controversy • Wikibooks • “wikify”
• Wikipedia infilatrated by PR hacks • EA responds • Conflict of Interest Policy
Wikipedia as a research starting point
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