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Tuesday, October 31, 2006
Can Wikipedia Ever Make the Grade? - Brock Read, Chronicle of Higher Education
As questions about the accuracy of the anyone-can-edit encyclopedia persist, academics are split on whether to ignore it, or start contributing. Alexander M.C. Halavais, an assistant professor of communications at Quinnipiac University, has spent hours and hours wading through Wikipedia, which has become the Internet's hottest information source. Like thousands of his colleagues, he has turned to the open-source encyclopedia for timely information and trivia; unlike most of his peers, he has, from time to time, contributed his own expertise to the site. But to Wikipedia's legions of ardent amateur editors, Mr. Halavais may be best remembered as a troll.
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