Re: [LM_NET] GEN: Wikipedia co-founder interview in Time magazine

[Shonda Brisco <sbrisco@GMAIL.COM>]

On similar note, a new online wikipedia (a citizen's compendium of
everything) has been created (by the makers of Wikipedia) which
provides a "gentle expert oversight" to the addition of information to
its online encyclopedia.  (Which means they will require the
contributors to include their personal information -- names--- to
validate the reliability and the source.)

You can check out the new wiki---  Citizendium (in beta format)
at:  http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Main_Page

To read more about their mission:  http://www.citizendium.org/about.html

Their motto:  The world needs a better free encyclopedia.  Help create it.


~Shonda



On 3/28/07, Juliann Moskowitz <juliann14@hotmail.com> wrote:
> In The April 2 edition of Time, Jimmy Wales, co-founder of Wikipedia answers
> questions about Wikipedia, and in response to a question about using
> Wikipedia for school assignments says:
>
> "I would agree with your teachers that that isn't the right way to use
> Wikipedia. The site is a wonderful staring point for research. But it's only
> a starting point because there is a chance that there's something wrong and
> you should check your sources if you are wirting a paper."
>
> We just ran off copies for all of our teachers who seem not to know or care
> about the pitfalls of Wikipedia. I was happy to see that even the founder
> admits to its limitations.
>
>
>
> ****************************
> Juliann T. Moskowitz
> Library Media Specialist
> Norwalk High School
> Norwalk, CT 06851
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>
> Reading is a means of thinking with another person's mind; it forces you to
> stretch your own.--Charles Scribner, Jr.
>
> A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, he is one
> who is prematurely disappointed in the future—Sydney J Harris, journalist
> (1917-1986)
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Shonda Brisco, MLIS
Library Media Specialist
Ditto Elementary School
Arlington, TX
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"Digital Resources" columnist
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