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WIKIPEDIA is now politically correct to use as a reference resource
WIKIPEDIA is now politically correct to use as a reference resource
http://whygive.wikimedia.org/2007/12...ust-wikipedia/ 8th December 2007, ResearchBuzz notes: "OCLC Hooks Up With Wikipedia" .. . . " search over a billion items in over 10,000 libraries around the world." http://www.academic-genealogy.com/me... .htm#research " Now the xISBN service has been hooked up with Wikipedia! That means you can enter a URL and have xISBN generate a list of related URLs, and then check those URLs against the ISBNs on Wikipedia." http://www.researchbuzz.org/wp/2007/...ith-wikipedia/ November 2007, Amazon Kindle, an electronic http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Kindle book (e-book) service is launched in the United States by Amazon.com. The Official Kindle product page notes: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000FI73MA/ " Includes free wireless access to the planet's most exhaustive and up-to-date encyclopedia-- Wikipedia.org." November 27, 2007, Inside Higher Education News adds, under . . . New Ways to Collaborate . . . "How does the university develop its academic enterprise?" .. . . "And now that both Microsoft and Google offer tools that allow students to publish their work -- and edit it, in real time, with others -- the adoption of these Web services presents an opportunity for universities to evolve their approaches in the classroom as well" . . . such as "posting term papers on Wikipedia to be peer-edited by classmates" . . . http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2007/11/27/email October 29, 2007, Inside Higher Education News suggests: "The shift to thinking about placing the term paper as a Wikipedia encyclopedia entry allows for another level of peer review," . . . http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2007/10/29/wikipedia August 27, 2007, the Taipei Times noted: Academics debate Wikipedia's value . . . .. . . "For S.T. Huang . . . , associate professor of the National Pingtung University of Science and Technology, the online encyclopedia, with its use of the open-source software "Wiki," can be used to preserve "disappearing local knowledge." Huang and some local activists in southern Taiwan have been dedicated to the task of accumulating local knowledge for more than 10 years. He said that Wikipedia will help the team establish a local knowledge database for Taiwan that can be accessed by people all over the world." http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiw.../14/2003374123 Earlier reference: A Case Study on the Veracity of the "Wiki" concept . . . http://www.journalism.org/node/1676 MULTI-SOURCE REFERENCE using WIKIPEDIA: Regional Genealogy and Local History Research: Local History and Genealogy Portals to the World. http://www.academic-genealogy.com/regionalgenealogy.htm Regional genealogy and local history research includes: areas, countries, directories, ethnic group populations, organizations, local ancestry and local history studies. Respectfully yours, Tom Tinney, Sr. Who's Who in America, Millennium Edition [54th] through 2004 Who's Who In Genealogy and Heraldry, [both editions] Family Genealogy & History Internet Education Directory http://www.academic-genealogy.com/ Professional worldwide humanities and social sciences mega portal, connected directly to thousands of related sub-sets, with billions of primary or secondary database family history and genealogy records. It encompasses all other key worldwide genealogy and surname sites. P.S. The "political correctness" phrase was a subtle statement by the writer that compared the rise of Wikipedia and its compilation by the "unwashed" educated masses, with the rise of the American democratic process; the creation of the Constitution of the United States, wherein a society was ordered by former "unwashed" people, who had the audacity to believe that the common man could self-govern. UNWASHED: ignorant, plebeian WIKIPEDIA continues to be politically correct, as amended daily. The historical perspective or context is my mention of the creation of the Constitution of the United States, which was made for change, (through an amendment process), as required by future generations. "The United States Constitution is the oldest enduring written national Constitution." So Wikipedia, which is amended daily, should have a similar future. http://www.whitehouse.gov/kids/constitution/facts.html AMENDMENT: The act of changing for the better; improvement. A correction or alteration, as in a manuscript. POINT OF ISSUE: There appears a clear usage trend, indicating Wikipedia will over time, become central to higher education curriculum and teaching methods, in all language formats, worldwide. October 31, 2007 Wikipedia project is a class act http://www.theage.com.au/news/web/wi...618940842.html .. . . [University of New South Wales Associate Professor Andrew Collins has just completed a 10-week project with his advanced immunology class, requiring students to correct errors and fill the gaps in Wikipedia articles related to immunology. . . . Universities around the world, from the University of Hong Kong to MIT to Yale, have run similar projects for certain courses. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...rsity_projects The site, now ranked among the ten most-visited websites in the world, . . .] The British Library, "The world's knowledge", among other things, uses Wikipedia directly, at: The Web Archiving Programme. http://www.bl.uk/aboutus/stratpolprog/digi/webarch/ "The Web Archiving Programme has been set up to put in place systems that enable the British Library to become the point of first resort for anyone who wants to access a comprehensive archive of material from the UK Web domain". I note on External links: Wikipedia: Web Crawler http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_crawler Peer Review: "The British Library is a founder member of the UK Web Archiving Consortium and chairs the steering committee. The archive contains over 2100 different sites, over 1000 of which have been contributed by the team at the British Library." Wikipedia is used in Library of Congress Authorities. "Using Library of Congress Authorities, you can browse and view authority headings for Subject, Name, Title and Name/Title combinations; and download authority records in MARC format for use in a local library system." This service is offered free of charge. http://authorities.loc.gov/ |
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