Monday 1 September 2008

Encyclopaedia Idiotica

The THES has an article this week which starts, "Wikipedia is created mostly by teenage male computer nerds, so Martin Cohen worries about its growing clout among 'scholars'

What is it about Wikipedia? It didn't exist in 2001. Not so long ago, it was just an obscure website full of biographies of sports figures and esoteric details about TV shows such as Star Trek.

But now it is big business. Wikipedia has unexpectedly become the most dominant "scholarly" source on the web. Now its aim is no less than "to become a complete record of human knowledge".


See: http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storycode=403327

... and there are interesting comments.