Category Archives: Wikipedia

Uncyclopedia

Posted on Thursday, August 30, 2007 by Keith

Tired of all those dubious facts on Wikipedia? well, now we have Uncyclopedia, which is chock full of things that are completely made up. Finally, the Web comes through with something we can completely trust!

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Wiki Gathering

Posted on Wednesday, May 23, 2007 by Keith

Over at Salon, they have an interview with David Weinberger, whose new book, Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder, is making quite a stir. Towards the end of the interview (all of which is great) he … Continue reading →

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How Great Is Wikipedia?

Posted on Tuesday, April 11, 2006 by Keith

This question gets asked a lot. We librarians have criteria for evaluating a resource: reliability (Wikipedia is always there), authoritativeness (check out the recent study published a few months back in Nature), depth (1 million plus articles and growing daily) … Continue reading →

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Wikipedia, Again

Posted on Thursday, May 19, 2005 by Keith

About two weeks ago I wrote about Paul Boutin’s critique of Wikipedia at Slate, in which he criticizes Wikipedia for not working at the same level as Encarta, or other web based encylopedias.* As Bryan pointed out in comments, Microsoft … Continue reading →

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