Re: [Wiki-research-l] Why is Wikipedia still so often frowned upon in academic circles?

Thanks for initiating this interesting conversation with your paper, Darius. As a retired professor and researcher and now active Wikipedian, I have a foot in both camps. Wearing my academic hat, the concerns I have are the ease of vandalism, the risk of subtle vandalism (I agree obvious

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Why is Wikipedia still so often frowned upon in academic circles?

On 03/12/2019 23:04, Dariusz Jemielniak wrote: Besides a shameless self-promo, I'm also genuinely curious what your experience with persuading people in Academia that what you do is legit is. Thanks for the piece Dariusz, To your (legitimate) argument abour Wikipedia as challenging the

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Why is Wikipedia still so often frowned upon in academic circles?

Congrats, Dariusz! To anyone interested in exploring the main question Dariusz presented further, the following article is recommended - To those who have academic access and want to review online - https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13614533.2012.740439 To those who don't, here is the

[Wiki-research-l] Why is Wikipedia still so often frowned upon in academic circles?

Hi, In this GigaScience piece, I'm arguing, that "We are the 1% in terms of knowledge access privilege; developing Wikipedia, the common good of humanity, is our moral obligation", and trying to figure out why academics still frown upon Wikipedia.

[Wiki-research-l] Survey on data visualization for Wikipedia

Hi! As a part of my job at OBC Transeuropa among the other things I contribute to Wikipedia and Commons with graphs and text coming from EDJNet , a data journalism network we promote that is publishing its content with a