Whenever academics gather to talk about the issue of trust and online evaluation, discussion seems to shift to Wikipedia. I was surprised to learn that increasingly, illustrious bodies such as the British Museum and the British Library are appointing Wikipedians in residence. The British Museum adopted the practice after realizing that the Wikipedia article on the Rosetta Stone attracted five times as many visitors in one month than the official site (Hitchcock, 2011). Such a policy is presumably a pragmatic response to concerns over the reliability of Wikipedia.
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Monday, 13 August 2012
Wikipedians in residence
Whenever academics gather to talk about the issue of trust and online evaluation, discussion seems to shift to Wikipedia. I was surprised to learn that increasingly, illustrious bodies such as the British Museum and the British Library are appointing Wikipedians in residence. The British Museum adopted the practice after realizing that the Wikipedia article on the Rosetta Stone attracted five times as many visitors in one month than the official site (Hitchcock, 2011). Such a policy is presumably a pragmatic response to concerns over the reliability of Wikipedia.
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