Making Wikis Work for Scholars (Learners) - The Diigo Meta page

• 10 May 08
  

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  • Still, some continue to worry that the very structure of Wikipedia encourages editors (who can be anyone) to disregard expertise and undermine the basic mechanics of peer review and academic credibility.
  • t’s a dynamic that Sorin Matei, a communications professor at Purdue University, describes this way: “He who can sit for the longest in front of the computer is right.”
  • Our goal is not to create ... content very fast. We want to get the best people (living legends) to participate in the project, so that the content will survive and will be maintainable by the future generation of experts 100 years from now. This is why we are so selective,”
  • We believe that knowing who wrote what will significantly help users make better use of web content.”

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