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http://idiggi.blogspot.com [Bigger Digger News] Along with factual errors and deliberate hoaxes, Wikipedia recently became the subject of scrutiny as it was found that Wiki-insiders obtained their position with false credentials. This led to further speculation about just how credible Wikipedia is as a source of information, and the web site quickly went into damage control mode to assert itself as a legitimate online encyclopedia.

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http://www.roughtype.com [Roughtype.com] Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: Wikipedia's credentialism crisis: what Wales understands as well as Diderot and D´Alembert did is the productive power of what Gramsci called the "organic intellectual", not layman but also not prolific author, more part of the middle layers of everyday team based bureaucracy, maybe bored, maybe over-educated, employed or unemployed, a product of digital literacy and common internet based self-education as well as a productive member of the old educational system. wikipedians convert and remix common knowledge from the analogue to the digital domain, this is a collective writing process which is done by hand.

News.com.comhttp://news.com.com [News.com.com] Wikipedia 101: Check your sources | News.blog | CNET News.com: "One of the points I try to make about Wikipedia, and am usually ignored because one type of pundit wants to sneer at Wikipedia's large amount of pop-culture, while another type of pundit wants to hype it as the self-emergent ubermind, is that it fundamentally runs by an extremely deceptive sort of social promise. It functions by selling the heavy contributors on the dream, the illusion, that it'll give them the prestige of an academic ('writing an encyclopedia').

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