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The Open-Source Encyclopedia, Now in Hardcover
Need a gift for that open-source enthusiast in your life who happens to have some bookshelf space to fill? A German company called PediaPress has come to the rescue: For a not-unreasonable fee, it...
View ArticleA Wikipedia Administrator Tells the Web Site’s Story
By now, if you’re even moderately interested in Wikipedia, you’ve probably had the chance to read any number of lengthy articles on the Web site’s meteoric rise. So why bother with a whole book on the...
View ArticleMicrosoft’s Encarta, Rendered Obsolete by Wikipedia, Will Shut Down
Microsoft has announced that it will soon euthanize Encarta, the onetime encyclopedia-of-the-future that has lost much of its luster in the last decade. But the company really didn’t have much choice...
View ArticleHave Wikis Run Out of Steam?
Just a few years ago, it seemed nearly everyone, in academe and out, was hailing the wiki as the next great transformative technology — or, at the very least, a tool worth getting a bit excited about....
View ArticleWikipedia Pushes for Users to Add Videos
Wikipedia is advocating for users to add videos to its online encyclopedia, which could give academics a new forum in which to share their multimedia work. Three nonprofit groups — Miro, Mozilla...
View ArticleWhat if We Ran Universities Like Wikipedia?
Anaheim, Calif.—A silly question? Maybe. But the analogy, made by a speaker at the Educause conference here today, reflects a recurring theme at this year’s event: Do our university bureaucracies still...
View ArticleProfessors Shore Up Wikipedia Entries on Public Policy
Wikipedia, the user-written encyclopedia, has a shortage of public-policy articles, so it is getting help from nine universities to solve the problem. The Public Policy Initiative of the Wikimedia...
View ArticleQuickWire: Calif. Medical Students Will Edit Wikipedia Articles
Beginning in December, fourth-year medical students at the University of California at San Francisco will be able to take a for-credit class in which they will edit Wikipedia articles about medical...
View ArticleWiki ‘Edit-a-Thon’ at Brown U. Will Add Entries for Women in Science
When she was growing up, Maia Weinstock’s role model was the astronaut Sally Ride. But she really didn’t have any other female role models in science. Ms. Weinstock, a news director at an educational...
View ArticleAcademics Continue Flirting With a Former Foe: Wikipedia
Google “straight turkey,” and you will find references to the Dardanelles (a Turkish strait), Wild Turkey brand whiskey, and a recent soccer match between the United States and, you guessed it, Turkey....
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