8 Oct
2006
8 Oct
'06
5:36 p.m.
On 10/8/06, Martin G. Smith <martin@redseven.ca> wrote:
I suggest it might be incumbent on those said same academics to perhaps nudge the quality of wikis in general and wikipedia in particular which in turn improve the quality of the knowledge within the community as a whole.
Roy Rosenzweig of the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University issued a similar call to historians in an article entitled "Can History be Open Source? Wikipedia and the Future of the Past" published in Volume 93, Number 1 of The Journal of American History. He has a copy of the article online at http://chnm.gmu.edu/resources/essays/d/42. Kevin