Archive for 'Wikipedia'
Where’s The Real Discussion On Our Discussion Lists
Though they may seem a bit behind the times, e-mail discussion lists (since “listserv” is a registered name the proper generic term is “discussion list” – it’s like using “xerox” instead of “photocopy”) are still important to academic librarians. In his Chronicle article about the status of discussion lists, Jeffrey Young writes that “the time [...]
Posted by StevenB on July 6th, 2009 under Wikipedia.
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Faculty Blog Round Up: Teaching with Technology
Editor’s Note: A few weeks ago we put out a call for someone to be our new faculty blog correspondent. With this post I’d like to introduce Laura Wimberley, the librarian we’ve selected to keep us up-to-date on what’s happening in the faculty blogosphere. Laura works at the Medical Center Library at the University [...]
Posted by Laura Wimberley on May 11th, 2009 under Faculty, In The Disciplines, Teaching, Technology Issues, Wikipedia, Worth Reading.
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Think you know Wikipedia? You might… or you might just think you do
Up until about two weeks ago, I was a Wikipedia snob. I thought that I knew what it was and how it worked. I had looked at the site, browsed through a few entries, and edited a couple of test pages anonymously to see how easy it was to screw with the entries. I had [...]
Posted by Kim Leeder on February 27th, 2008 under Wikipedia.
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Computing Wikipedia’s Authority
Michael Jensen has predicted
In the Web 3.0 world, we will also start seeing heavily computed reputation-and-authority metrics, based on many of the kinds of elements now used, as well as on elements that can be computed only in an information-rich, user-engaged environment.
By this he means that computer programs and data mining algorithms will be [...]
Posted by Marc Meola on August 15th, 2007 under Authority, Wikipedia.
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