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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />US: Professors give [b]Wikipedia a facelift[/b]
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The legitimacy of Wikipedia, the popular online user-edited encyclopedia, as an academic resource has long been doubted, writes Derek Schlom for The Tufts ...
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... and then they get reverted for OR, blocked for their POV and COI, and the IP of their school range-blocked for 'persistent vandalism.'
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... During the semester, she said, students analyze a societal problem that can be solved via public policy.
... "After they write the paper, they have some substantive expertise on the policy problem … so they find a relevant Wikipedia page and the[n] use that information to update, modify and expand the page."
... "The students monitor the reaction of … readers and editors, people who have changed the page..."
... "After they write the paper, they have some substantive expertise on the policy problem … so they find a relevant Wikipedia page and the[n] use that information to update, modify and expand the page."
... "The students monitor the reaction of … readers and editors, people who have changed the page..."
... and then they get reverted for OR, blocked for their POV and COI, and the IP of their school range-blocked for 'persistent vandalism.'
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US: Professors give Wikipedia a facelift
University World News
The legitimacy of Wikipedia, the popular online user-edited encyclopedia, as an academic resource has long been doubted, writes Derek Schlom for The Tufts ...
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"The Wikimedia Foundation came to visit campus last spring, and they basically were seeking input from faculty about various ways that we might use Wikipedia in the classroom," she said. "It sounded like a way for our students to be on the cutting edge in the Internet Age."
Read: The Wikimedia Foundation came to visit campus last spring, and they basically were seeking
Can I recommend some Israel/Palastine articles as topic of interest? Global warming? Animal rights?
This might be very educational for the students, as Zoloft says.
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