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January 10, 2005
Wikipedia
Wikipedia, the encyclopedia that is open to all contributors, is one of the most interesting projects on the internet. The idea is that any individual can contribute specialist knowledge - about locality, work, research project, leisure interest or whatever - and then the text can be edited, refined and developed by his or her peers.
It’s a resource that I have been using more and more in the past few months. According to Wired News the number of entries is growing at about 7 percent a month.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,66210-2,00.html?tw=wnstorypage_next1
Posted by Simon Holledge at January 10, 2005 11:13 PM
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I generally find wikipedia a wonderful source, but it is open to the odd distortion from "interested parties". Check out the "Scottish Nationalist Party" references, and one or two other slights here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_independence
Has a Labour activist been busy with their little keyboard? I will contact Wikipedia about this when (if) I get a mo.
Posted by: Stuart Dickson at January 16, 2005 09:19 AM
Wikipedia do encourage re-editing. As the Wiki is becoming better known, this is worth doing. You can also initiate a formal process for deleting an entry.
Posted by: Simon Holledge at January 17, 2005 12:36 AM