[lbo-talk] But Wikipedia sucks, right?

[Alan Rudy]

I'm with Shag, many articles on wikipedia are quite useful, though - like
any encyclopedia - they are never a place to stop (perhaps especially for
students working on research papers or exams.)  The ideology issue there is
key since the majority of students I have who cite wikipedia most often are
those citing more ideological articles, and nothing else.  In all the years
I've gotten citations to wikipedia, I have never gotten a citation that was
used to intelligently criticize an assigned reading not gotten a citation to
wikipedia that was subsequently criticized by appealing to alternative
sources.

On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 7:50 AM, shag carpet bomb <shag at cleandraws.com>wrote:


> i didn't know there were any on the list. chuck0 gets irritated by
> rightwingers' domination of political/cultural/social issues but nearly
> everyone has remarked on how good the technical/computing articles tend to
> be. and i'm guessing chuck0 isn't opposed to the concept in general, simply
> disgusted with  the fact that it's abused in the service of rightwing
> ideology.
>
> At 07:13 AM 6/11/2011, fernando cassia wrote:
>
>>
>> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110608/23554914632/national-archives-hires-wikipedian-residence.shtml
>>
>> National Archives Hires 'Wikipedian In Residence' <
>> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110608/23554914632/national-archives-hires-wikipedian-residence.shtml>
>> (/Surprises/)
>>
>> ----
>> by *Mike Masnick* from the /but-wikipedia-sucks,-right?/ dept on Friday,
>> June 10th, 2011 @ 6:34PM
>>
>> Didn't see this coming. Via Glyn Moody <
>> https://twitter.com/#%21/glynmoody/statuses/78446005942616065>, we learn
>> that the National Archives has hired its first "Wikipedian in Residence" <
>> http://archiv.twoday.net/stories/19467868/> -- though it appears to only
>> be a summer internship position.
>>
>>   /The Archives says [Dominic] McDevitt-Parks has more than seven
>>   years of Wikipedia editing experience. His job will be to foster
>>   collaboration between the Wikipedia community and the National
>>   Archives. That could include using some of Wikipedia's tools for
>>   ongoing digitization projects at the archives. /
>>
>> It would be interesting to hear the Wikipedia-haters' take on this. It
>> seems to me that this is yet another sign of Wikipedia's place in our
>> current culture.
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