Comments on: WikiPedia tightens its editorial policies… ever so slightly http://cac.ophony.org/2006/06/18/wikipedia-tightens-its-editorial-policies-ever-so-slightly/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 11:00:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Alan Liu’s draft policy statement on student use of Wikipedia in research at cac.ophony.org http://cac.ophony.org/2006/06/18/wikipedia-tightens-its-editorial-policies-ever-so-slightly/comment-page-1/#comment-1527 Alan Liu’s draft policy statement on student use of Wikipedia in research at cac.ophony.org Thu, 06 Jul 2006 06:10:10 +0000 http://cac.ophony.org/2006/06/18/wikipedia-tightens-its-editorial-policies-ever-so-slightly/#comment-1527 [...] Yes, sorry, I am posting about Wikipedia again. But I thought I would solicit your thoughts on Alan Liu’s draft policy statement on student use of Wikipedia (via Kairosnews). It has also been picked up by the Chronicle of Higher Education’s Wired Campus. [...] [...] Yes, sorry, I am posting about Wikipedia again. But I thought I would solicit your thoughts on Alan Liu’s draft policy statement on student use of Wikipedia (via Kairosnews). It has also been picked up by the Chronicle of Higher Education’s Wired Campus. [...]

]]> By: Joe Ugoretz http://cac.ophony.org/2006/06/18/wikipedia-tightens-its-editorial-policies-ever-so-slightly/comment-page-1/#comment-1243 Joe Ugoretz Mon, 19 Jun 2006 00:27:10 +0000 http://cac.ophony.org/2006/06/18/wikipedia-tightens-its-editorial-policies-ever-so-slightly/#comment-1243 I think this is really more of a cosmetic tightening, than anything else, and Jimmy Wales expresses that quite well. The real issue is that we need to change the way people see wikipedia...because it really is something different from a traditional encyclopedia, and doesn't bear comparison with that model--it's an apples/oranges comparison. This is how I try to use this resource with my own students...to help them question and critique *all* information resources. Wikipedia foregrounds a process which is vital for college students (and probably all citizens) to master. Last week, a student in my online class emailed me in confusion because she had found an error (a relatively minor one) in a wikipedia article about a story we had read. She knew that she was right, and the article was wrong, but she was troubled because what she had absorbed from her earlier teaching was that print resources, especially encyclopedias, are always right. So she was in a quandary. It was a perfect "teachable moment"--and even more perfect when (with a little nudging) she went in and corrected the wikipedia article, and then posted on the discussion page to explain her change. Coincidentally, my article on this subject was published this week at Academic Commons http://www.academiccommons.org/commons/essay/Ugoretz-social-software-folksonomy I think this is really more of a cosmetic tightening, than anything else, and Jimmy Wales expresses that quite well. The real issue is that we need to change the way people see wikipedia…because it really is something different from a traditional encyclopedia, and doesn’t bear comparison with that model–it’s an apples/oranges comparison.

This is how I try to use this resource with my own students…to help them question and critique *all* information resources. Wikipedia foregrounds a process which is vital for college students (and probably all citizens) to master.

Last week, a student in my online class emailed me in confusion because she had found an error (a relatively minor one) in a wikipedia article about a story we had read. She knew that she was right, and the article was wrong, but she was troubled because what she had absorbed from her earlier teaching was that print resources, especially encyclopedias, are always right. So she was in a quandary. It was a perfect “teachable moment”–and even more perfect when (with a little nudging) she went in and corrected the wikipedia article, and then posted on the discussion page to explain her change.

Coincidentally, my article on this subject was published this week at Academic Commons http://www.academiccommons.org/commons/essay/Ugoretz-social-software-folksonomy

]]> By: China Law Blog http://cac.ophony.org/2006/06/18/wikipedia-tightens-its-editorial-policies-ever-so-slightly/comment-page-1/#comment-1235 China Law Blog Sun, 18 Jun 2006 14:42:19 +0000 http://cac.ophony.org/2006/06/18/wikipedia-tightens-its-editorial-policies-ever-so-slightly/#comment-1235 Well, we know Wikipedia isn't doing this to prevent the Chinese from changing the section on China human rights; Wikipedia is blocked in China. Well, we know Wikipedia isn’t doing this to prevent the Chinese from changing the section on China human rights; Wikipedia is blocked in China.

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