Re: [NetBehaviour] Most students use Wikipedia, avoid telling profs about it.

2010-03-21 Thread helen varley jamieson
yep this is a tedious process that some of us on this list had to go thru a few years ago, with entries for furtherfield, cyberformance UpStage. it was pretty frustrating the process for getting things undeleted working out the wikipedia rules processes was pretty circular. but in the end

Re: [NetBehaviour] Most students use Wikipedia, avoid telling profs about it.

2010-03-21 Thread Jim Andrews
wikipedia gets gazillions of hits but it's free for all. yet is clearly not a free-for-all concerning its internal processes. an interesting 'architecture'. re simon and 'social media'. one wonders what has kept it being free for all. because in some ways it's worth millions of dollars. the

[NetBehaviour] Most students use Wikipedia, avoid telling profs about it.

2010-03-19 Thread marc garrett
Most students use Wikipedia, avoid telling profs about it. By Jacqui Cheng. Surprise! Most students use Wikipedia at some point during their research on a paper or project, and they usually do so early on in the process. Online peer-reviewed journal First Monday recently published the

Re: [NetBehaviour] Most students use Wikipedia, avoid telling profs about it.

2010-03-19 Thread Ruth Catlow
distributed creativity netbehaviour@netbehaviour.org Subject: [NetBehaviour] Most students use Wikipedia, avoid telling profs about it. Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 09:29:45 + Most students use Wikipedia, avoid telling profs about it. By Jacqui Cheng. Surprise! Most students use Wikipedia at some point

Re: [NetBehaviour] Most students use Wikipedia, avoid telling profs about it.

2010-03-19 Thread tom.corby
...@netbehaviour.org%3e *Subject*: [NetBehaviour] Most students use Wikipedia, avoid telling profs about it. *Date*: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 09:29:45 + Most students use Wikipedia, avoid telling profs about it. By Jacqui Cheng. Surprise! Most students use Wikipedia at some point during their research

Re: [NetBehaviour] Most students use Wikipedia, avoid telling profs about it.

2010-03-19 Thread Simon Biggs
: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 09:56:44 + To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity netbehaviour@netbehaviour.org Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] Most students use Wikipedia, avoid telling profs about it. if this is really true the profs need to wise-up. Wikipedia is a great first stop for research

Re: [NetBehaviour] Most students use Wikipedia, avoid telling profs about it.

2010-03-19 Thread Simon Biggs
creativity netbehaviour@netbehaviour.org Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] Most students use Wikipedia, avoid telling profs about it. I think most Profs are fully aware that students use Wikipedia. I would hazard a guess (in fact I wouldn't I know for a fact) that lot of the material

Re: [NetBehaviour] Most students use Wikipedia, avoid telling profs about it.

2010-03-19 Thread Rob Myers
On 19/03/10 07:52, Simon Biggs wrote: It is no big deal for the student to find a useful reference. Most Wikipedia entries cite sources. Many of these sources are accessible on line, through Google books, Project Gutenberg or Amazon. If not then there are these places called libraries...

Re: [NetBehaviour] Most students use Wikipedia, avoid telling profs about it.

2010-03-19 Thread TOM CORBY
and point you at the original sources of material. t. --- On Fri, 19/3/10, Simon Biggs s.bi...@eca.ac.uk wrote: From: Simon Biggs s.bi...@eca.ac.uk Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] Most students use Wikipedia, avoid telling profs about it. To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity

Re: [NetBehaviour] Most students use Wikipedia, avoid telling profs about it.

2010-03-19 Thread Simon Biggs
netbehaviour@netbehaviour.org Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 15:27:23 + (GMT) To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity netbehaviour@netbehaviour.org Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] Most students use Wikipedia, avoid telling profs about it. I agree with Simon, for academic purposes you of course

Re: [NetBehaviour] Most students use Wikipedia, avoid telling profs about it.

2010-03-19 Thread Ruth Catlow
netbehaviour@netbehaviour.org Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] Most students use Wikipedia, avoid telling profs about it. I think most Profs are fully aware that students use Wikipedia. I would hazard a guess (in fact I wouldn't I know for a fact

Re: [NetBehaviour] Most students use Wikipedia, avoid telling profs about it.

2010-03-19 Thread Jim Andrews
i recently attempted to put an article about an important contemporary artist on wikipedia. it was repeatedly deleted by 'bearcat'. he said the artist wasn't notable enough to merit inclusion in wikipedia. i cited articles about him in the guardian and nytimes, and books in which his work is

Re: [NetBehaviour] Most students use Wikipedia, avoid telling profs about it.

2010-03-19 Thread Rob Myers
On Fri, 19 Mar 2010 13:14:45 -0700, Jim Andrews j...@vispo.com wrote: i recently attempted to put an article about an important contemporary artist on wikipedia. it was repeatedly deleted by 'bearcat'. he said the artist wasn't notable enough to merit inclusion in wikipedia. i cited

Re: [NetBehaviour] Most students use Wikipedia, avoid telling profs about it.

2010-03-19 Thread TOM CORBY
Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] Most students use Wikipedia, avoid telling profs about it. To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity netbehaviour@netbehaviour.org Date: Friday, 19 March, 2010, 15:39 From my experience, I'd suggest that nowadays most professors also use Wikipedia - they're

Re: [NetBehaviour] Most students use Wikipedia, avoid telling profs about it.

2010-03-19 Thread brian gibson
keep at em..:) On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 8:19 PM, Jim Andrews j...@vispo.com wrote: Bearcat is clearly a deletionist. They are a real problem, and not just for well-referenced notable articles about art. They are convinced (and convince each other) that they are making Wikipedia better