On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 3:16 PM, Mel Chua <m...@purdue.edu> wrote: > Courtesy of Kevin Mark. > > "I was never a fan of Wikipedia. In fact, I was quite skeptical when I first > heard about the Wikipedia Global Education Program. How things have > changed... I’m an academic after all; my work is well-researched, credible, > trustworthy, not like that amateurish stuff on Wikipedia. Just let me find > one of my students citing Wikipedia in a paper so that I can write on their > submission in big, red letters YOU DO NOT CITE WIKIPEDIA IN MY CLASS... The > dirty little secret of course was that I was using Wikipedia all the time."
Regarding this issue, the following comparison always come to my mind: http://blogs.nature.com/wp/nascent/2005/12/comparing_wikipedia_and_britan_1.html It would be interesting to see the updated results. Cheers, Berkin _______________________________________________ tos mailing list tos@teachingopensource.org http://lists.teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos
