Not surprisingly, the Encyclopedia Britannica is trying to become Wikipedia by allowing users to edit Britannica entries. There’s a catch though. Unlike Wikipedia which will allow anonymous edits to entries, Britannica will require people to be registered users whose real names and addresses will be used (to verify their authenticity, I suppose). Another difference between [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘Wikipedia’
September 29, 2008
Professor Wikipedia
Thought this video was worth sharing: Meet Professor Wikipedia.
September 5, 2008
Wikipedia in the news
I’ve been sitting on a few stories about Wikipedia and just haven’t had the opportunity to say much about them.
First, is this story from a newspaper in Charleston, Illinois. It basically says that some people are actually using Wikipedia as a teaching instrument. Oh my gosh! How horrible! Oh wait, that’s sarcasm. Yes, of course [...]
August 5, 2008
Diplopedia
I am one of those librarians who thinks Wikipedia is a useful tool and so when I see something like Diplopedia, I think it’s worth mentioning. Diplopedia is the government’s version of Wikipedia that is used in the state department. Rather than sending out memos to everyone who needs to know about the person they’re [...]
June 27, 2008
Twitter, Wikipedia, and Breaking News
I thought this piece in the New York Times was particularly interesting because it talks about how Twitter and Wikipedia scooped the traditional news outlets in reporting Tim Russert’s untimely death. Scooped may not be the right word in this sort of instance because NBC wanted to wait an appropriate amount of time to inform [...]
