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Freshblog: Blogger Hacks, Categories for Blogger and other Blog Tips, Tricks & Toolshttp://blogfresh.blogspot.com [Freshblog: Blogger Hacks, Categories for Blogger and other Blog Tips, Tricks & Tools] Times wiki that was overrun with adult content and a recent controversial biography of John Siegenthaler, I would like to suggest that a wiki is best used as a tool for communication in large communities which are bound and defined by other means... (within corporations, for example, where contributors are accountable to one another by way of the organisation) but that the open-access to editing format is vulnerable when editors have no other obligation to one another.

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http://casesblog.blogspot.com  Clinical Cases and Images - Blog: Disclaimer: I am also a registered contributor to Wikipedia. References: Online encyclopedia tightens rules - CNN A false Wikipedia 'biography' - USA Today Wikipedia tightens online rules - BBC Wikipedia Changes a Policy - Google Blogoscoped Wikipedia to Require Contributors to Register - NPR Make the Largest Encyclopedia in the World Better. (via Cosmos)

http://fdelondras.blogspot.com  Mental Meanderings: Everyone seems to be in love with Wikipedia, which is a great resource, but most people appear to somehow fail to grasp the caution that should be exercised in relation to it. My students appeared somewhat obsessed with quoting from it in their assignments last year until I suffered something akin to spontaneous combustion at the top of the lecture theatre and warned them against ever citing it as a source again. (via Cosmos)

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Occasional Outbursts: I frequently link to Wikipedia and will continue to do so because I think the nature of what it is ensures a level of accountability and reliability that many other sites (or even traditional journalistic sources) simply do not have. Bottom line: it just works. (via Cosmos)

Christopher D. Sessums :: Blog[Christopher D. Sessums :: Blog] Page help: I received some great constructive feedback on my first major literature review. At the same time, I know how long I worked on it and how much I struggled with it.

[The Ten Thousand Year Blog] JISC Announces £1 Million Digital Preservation Programme: News from a University of Ottawa law professor of Internet law and e-commerce 0 OpenAccess News Formerly FOS News, Peter Suber's blog documents the openaccess movement 0 Peter Scott?s Library Blog...,” the Library of Congress’ Prints and Photographs Online Catalog features access to: ” ”˜Cartoon Prints

Irrodl.org[Irrodl.org] IRRODL: 27. Educational Wikis: features and selection criteria: Wikis may also exhibit some of the elements that Wenger (2001) considers fundamental to the creation of successful communities of practice – among them, a virtual presence, a variety of interactions, easy participation, valuable content, connections to a broader subject field, personal and community identity and interaction, democratic participation, and evolution over time.

Creativecommons.orghttp://creativecommons.org [Creativecommons.org] Creative Commons Blog | Creative Commons: Finally, journals, particularly open access journals, may wish to be acknowledged as the source of first publication of the work even though they publish the article under only an exclusive or non-exclusive license (and do not take an assignment of title). It should also be noted that the status of copyright notices and the issue of correctly identifying the copyright owner(s) of a work are no more complex under the tweaked attribution language than under the existing attribution language.

Careo.elearning.ubc.ca[Careo.elearning.ubc.ca] In many respects, the open access and structure of wikis contrast ...: “SoftSecurity” is not the only way to protect contributions to a wiki space. http://www.socialtext.com/weblog/040524wiki-it.html.

Lessig.orghttp://www.lessig.org [Lessig.org] Lawrence Lessig: Yes how come no one compares Clarke’s proposal and Open Access and so forth with the science license proposed on wiki.creativecommons.org? The main reason that blog bad wiki good is that wikis force similar proposals to be compared and refactored and eventually become unified into some real viable proposals.

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