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Eight years after Wikipedia's launch, professors such as Lyubansky have come to accept the free online encyclopedia--which can be edited by any registered user with web access--as a legitimate research tool for students, especially after the site announced changes last month to its editing policies.
Entries written by new Wikipedia users now will be edited by regular contributors, and changes to the biographies of celebrities or controversial figures will be reviewed before they go live on the site, said Erik Moeller, deputy director of the Wikimedia Foundation, adding in a blog post that "false information can do the most serious harm to an individual."
Wikipedia Will Limit Changes on Articles About Living People - NYTimes.com
Officials at the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit in San Francisco that governs Wikipedia, say that within weeks, the English-language Wikipedia will begin imposing a layer of editorial review on articles about living people.
The new feature, called “flagged revisions,” will require that an experienced volunteer editor for Wikipedia sign off on any change made by the public before it can go live. Until the change is approved — or in Wikispeak, flagged — it will sit invisibly on Wikipedia’s servers, and visitors will be directed to the earlier version.
Wikipedia to Add New Level of Editorial Oversight
Now a core feature, perhaps a core principal, of “the free encyclopedia anyone can edit” is about to become restricted. According to The New York Times, editing articles about living people on Wikipedia will require approval from an experienced editor first.
Assessing the value of cooperation in Wikipedia
Since its inception six years ago, the online encyclopedia Wikipedia has accumulated 6.40 million articles and 250 million edits, contributed in a predominantly undirected and haphazard fashion by 5.77 million unvetted volunteers. Despite the apparent lack of order, the 50 million edits by 4.8 million contributors to the 1.5 million articles in the English–language Wikipedia follow strong certain overall regularities. We show that the accretion of edits to an article is described by a simple stochastic mechanism, resulting in a heavy tail of highly visible articles with a large number of edits. We also demonstrate a crucial correlation between article quality and number of edits, which validates Wikipedia as a successful collaborative effort.
Should students be allowed to use Wikipedia as a source? | Edutopia
Is Wikipedia a solid resource, merely a good starting point, or something students should avoid? Tell us what you think!
Digital media, Jeff Jarvis: Let's junk the myths and celebrate what we've got | Media | The Guardian
Creating, Destroying, and Restoring Value in Wikipedia | GroupLens Research
Abstract: Wikipedia’s brilliance and curse is that any user can edit any of the encyclopedia entries. We introduce the notion of the impact of an edit, measured by the number of times the edited version is viewed.
When Wikipedia Won't Cut It: 25 Online Sources for Reliable, Researched Facts - College Degree.com
Wikipedia users from Pew Internet & American Life Project, April 2007
More than a third of American adult internet users (36%) consult the citizen-generated online encyclopedia Wikipedia.. On a typical day in 2007, 8% of online Americans consulted Wikipedia.
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