[Web4lib] Wikipedia in Chronicle of Higher Education

Mike Taylor mike at indexdata.com
Tue Oct 24 13:02:11 EDT 2006


lars writes:
 > Later in the same article, however, history professor Roy 
 > Rosenzweig "notes, amusedly, that several Wikipedians appear to 
 > have since read his critiques and edited a number of articles in 
 > response to his concerns."

This is good.  Rosenzweig notes this "amusedly", but in fact it is the
Wikipedia in action doing precisely what it is supposed to do: correct
itself quickly as soon as errors are detected.

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