[Web4lib] Authority + Wikipedia

Jeremy Dunck jdunck at gmail.com
Wed Oct 12 14:58:43 EDT 2005


On 10/12/05, Peter Morville <morville at semanticstudios.com> wrote:
> librarians. I, for one, would love to see some serious evidence-based
> academic research that compares the quality and accuracy and bias of the
> Wikipedia to traditional reference sources.

I've attached a start...

The authoritative URL (
http://journalism.utexas.edu:16080/onlinejournalism/2004/papers/wikipedia.pdf
) seems to be offline, but you can see a (slightly unfinished) copy
here:
http://jmsc.hku.hk/faculty/alih/publications/utaustin-2004-wikipedia-rc2.pdf

That is, if you don't trust my attachment.


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