Discuss Wikipedia Validity in Wikipedia
April 29th, 2007At my first presentation for LARC, we had a great discussion about using Wikipedia for research (some like it, some don’t. I like it to start research I know zilch about) . Mark Chillingworth has this idea:
“Wikipedia is a community, not just of those that put time and effort into editing it, but also the users. Therefore the best place to meet your perspective users, introduce them to your content and advise them on better information gathering practices is at Wikipedia. Information professionals and information providers should be playing a considerable part in improving the content on Wikipedia; you can cite their own content and generate leads and users from there.”
Whoa. Very meta and very cool. Talk about going where the users are… (via)
April 30th, 2007 at 2:15 pm
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May 1st, 2007 at 2:05 am
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