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[StrayPackets · Reconstructing the Ordered Stream] Under the headline “Will Wikipedia Mean the End Of Traditional Encyclopedias?”, The Wall Street Journal pits Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales against Britannica editor-in-chief Dale Holberg.Those two won’t answer the Journal’s question, but I hope the eventual answer is: no.Wikipedia has a number of problems, all centered around the issue of trust. I want to […]
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[Roughtype.com] Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: Wikipedia and open source: But the Nature article implies that, beyond the errors and omissions tallied by the survey, the expert reviewers offered considerable criticism of the quality of the writing in Wikipedia: "Several Nature reviewers [commented] that the Wikipedia article they reviewed was poorly structured and confusing." The article notes further that such criticism of readability "is common among information scientists, who also point to other problems with article quality, such as undue prominence given to controversial scientific theories." The findings of the Nature survey, in other words, appear to filter out criticisms of Wikipedia's quality that the Nature reporters decided went beyond their definition of "accuracy."
[News.com.com] Wikipedia corrects Encyclopedia Britannica | News.blog | CNET News.com: This doesn't prove Wikipedia's superiority, of course, but it does underscore one crucial advantage: An online research tool can at least issue corrections after initial publication, in real time--even if they involve mistakes made by somebody else.
[Freedom-to-tinker.com] Freedom to Tinker » Blog Archive » Wikipedia vs. Britannica Smackdown: Britannica Online comparison, for the six .Wikipedia false encyclopedia..dont used this articles as references for your post .
[Stephen's Web ~ by Stephen Downes ~ Stephen's Web] Unattributed - Will Wikipedia Mean the End Of... : A bit like WWF Smackdown (oh, sorry, WWE now), Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales and Britannica's Dale Hoiberg engage in a back and forth debate on the relative merits of each other's product. "Artificially excluding good people from the process is not the best way to gather accurate knowledge.
[Preoccupations] WSJ.com - Will Wikipedia Mean the End Of... : At a gathering of Wikipedia contributors last month, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales urged them to put more emphasis on quality instead of quantity. In a bid to battle vandalism, the German version of the site is testing a new feature that will let administrators flag versions of articles as "nonvandalized," and those are the pages that will be shown to most visitors.
[PJNet Today] The Wikipedia or Britannica Debate Continues: ...it's a shame we're not past this us-v-them narrative in the worlds of Wikipedia, encyclopedias, and shared knowledge. Newspapers are finally starting - just starting - to figure out how to work together.
[netzpolitik.org: » Aktuelle Berichterstattung rund um die politischen Themen der Informationsgesellschaft.] Streitgespräch zwischen Wikipedia und ... : At a gathering of Wikipedia contributors last month, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales urged them to put more emphasis on quality instead of quantity. In a bid to battle vandalism, the German version of the site is testing a new feature that will let administrators flag versions of articles as “nonvandalized,”
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