According to a bit in The Wired Campus Garrett sent me, Encyclopedia Britannica is offering people who publish on the Web regularly (Webmasters, bloggers, etc.,) access to its content for free. Usually, it charges fees. This move is likely in response to the growing popularity of Wikipedia.
I wonder if Britannica includes Wikimedia contributors among its […]
“[T]he Oxford English Dictionary, arguably the greatest reference work in the English language…found its origins in a wiki model, whereby scholars put out the word to English speakers far and wide that they would welcome hard evidence of the earliest appearances of English words.”
Garrett pointed me to a piece in The Chronicle of Higher Education’s […]
Liane Hansen of National Public Radio is filing audio postcards from a trip to Egypt. On Sunday, she gave us a picture of the library at Alexandria.
Is it just a coincidence that she’s telling us about Egypt now when Wikimania will be there in July?
Garrett pointed me to a Citizendium press release about college credit for writing their articles as an incentive to contribute to a rival project to Wikipedia.
"Students can take responsibility for their work for course credits, and teachers grade the finished work based on the quality of the final article produced from each student’s input.
But students […]
As always, Garrett has an amazing wealth of stuff in his weekly Library News & Notes. I couldn’t find a permalink for this week’s edition, though.
Here are some of the highlights. I myself don’t know where to begin reading.
Credible Web? It’s where we click most: http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0319/p17s01-stct.html
Dusting Off the Archive for the Web: […]
Garrett let me know about a manual for editing Wikipedia from O’Reilly. Since the title indicates it’s the missing manual, does that mean when you purchase it, it magically disappears?
RTFM. (WOTTA?) (Mom, the “f” is for “fine.”)
“Agence France Presse banned its reporters from using Facebook and Wikipedia as sources last week, as news organizations still struggle to safely use online (re)sources,” according to journalism.co.uk
“Some newspapers picked up pictures on Facebook about Mr Bhutto, which turned out to be fake.”
Clarifying this point, Lesourd said that journalists couldn’t use these sites as sole […]
Makeuseof.com had a posting on how to install Wikipedia on some Ipods:
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-install-wikipedia-on-your-ipod/
http://ipodlinux.org/Wikipedia
I don’t know how good these directions are since I don’t own one but I thought I’ll let everyone know about them.
User beware!
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Here’s some nifty Wikipedia humor for you: “A different Wikipedia article in every can …”
It must be time to eat …
Here is the outline of the presentation I gave at the ASIST Annual Meeting on Wednesday, October 24, 2007. Tasked with discussing corporate blogs and wikis, I talked about some recent developments in those areas and used Renesys’ use of two blogs and an internal wiki to illustrate what people can do with wikis.
Compared to […]