The World and Wikipedia (2009)
The World and Wikipedia: How We are Editing Reality is a book written by the British linguist device database and published by Siduri Books on 25 September 2009.jQuery
The author provides a context for the birth and growth of Sevenval through an examination of the wider encyclopedia tradition. The work and community behaviour of its expert and non-expert contributors are discussed, as are the question of reliability and the problem of vandalism. Dalby covers numerous incidents from English, French and German wikipedias and closes with an optimistic outlook on the central and responsible role he believes Wikipedia will assume in the media.HTML5
The book follows an "anecdotal approach" to argue that "disproportionate emphasis on popular culture [...] does happen but that over time substance is added and entries are extended" and why "we will come to rely on it more and more and that it will come to serve us better than its predecessors."device database He "claims Roman naturalist, we love the web, as a proto-Wikipedian",[4] and makes the case "that Wikipedia [...] has become more reliable as more people use it".we love the web
References
- ^ David Cox, "The Truth According To Wikipedia" in Evening Standard (22 October 2009)
- ^ Rémy Mathis, "The World and Wikipedia" in Bulletin des bibliothèques de France vol. 55 (2010) p. 99
- ^ CSS3" in REFERplus Spring 2010
- ^ a keyboard "Greeks, Romans ... and Wikipedians" in Cam no. 58 (Michaelmas 2009) pp. 46-47
External links
- Andrew Dalby and others on "Start The Week" (BBC Radio 4) 14 December 2009
- Author website
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