[Web4lib] RE: What to Do With Wikipedia - one librarian's view

[Moore, John D.]

An amusing article on Wikipedia is in the latest New York Review of
Books:

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/21131

It reviews "Wikipedia: The Missing Manual" by John Broughton, Pogue
Press/O'Reilly 477 pp., $29.99 (paper)

John D. Moore
Assistant Librarian for Public Services
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
202-312-5503 


Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2008 15:45:51 -0800 (PST)
From: "B.G. Sloan" <bgsloan2 at yahoo.com>
Subject: [Web4lib] What to Do With Wikipedia - one librarian's view 
To: web4lib at webjunction.org
 
  Badke, William. What to Do With Wikipedia. Online, 32(2). March/April
2008.
  http://www.infotoday.com/online/mar08/Badke.shtml
   
  An excerpt:
   
  "If you want to get five opinions from four information professionals,
just mention Wikipedia. Often banned by professors, panned by
traditional reference book publishers, and embraced by just about
everyone else, Wikipedia marches on like a great beast, growing larger
and more commanding every day. With no paid editors and written by
almost anyone, it shouldn't have succeeded, but it has."
   
  Bernie Sloan