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January 10, 2005
Wikipedia I
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