Educators and librarians have long had an ambivalent relationship with Wikipedia. While admiring the attempt to crowdsource all human knowledge, the authority of that knowledge…
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Last month, The Atlantic published an extensive article (linked below) about problems Wikipedia was having with supposedly volunteer editors posting things on Wikipedia for financial…
OPLIN 4cast #358: Wikipedia troubles
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Wikipedia has problems. Now twelve years old, the online encyclopedia has developed some ailments that can be traced directly back to the volunteer editors of…
OPLIN 4Cast #276: Wikidata
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It has been eleven years since the launch of Wikipedia changed the way people look for information on the Internet, and six years since the…
OPLIN 4Cast #250: Truth and YouTube
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Once again this week, there was big news affecting the ebook business (launch of the Kindle Fire), but since you’ve certainly already been bombarded with…