This reminds me - some historians of science are engaged in a similar type of "trusted Wikipedia" that Alex and some others were discussing on this list a while back. I don't remember seeing this particular project posted in this forum - History of Science Collaboration of the Month page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:HOSCOTM I'm not sure how to evaluate the relative "success" of these monthly projects, but maybe the project facilitators have some sort of metric or tools for evaluation. Andy Andrew L. Russell Ph.D. Candidate, History of Science and Technology The Johns Hopkins University 3505 N. Charles Street Baltimore, Maryland 21218 http://www.arussell.org On Oct 8, 2006, at 6:36 PM, Kevin Guidry wrote:
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.
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