Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 32, No. 322.
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    [1]    From: Patricia Galloway 
           Subject: Re: [Humanist] 32.316: thoughts on Wikipedia (12)

    [2]    From: Gabriel Egan 
           Subject: Re: [Humanist] 32.316: thoughts on Wikipedia (19)

    [3]    From: Willard McCarty 
           Subject: Wikipedia (18)


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        Date: 2019-01-11 15:43:26+00:00
        From: Patricia Galloway 
        Subject: Re: [Humanist] 32.316: thoughts on Wikipedia

We had a student some years ago (when Wikipedia was being forbidden
right and left) whose dissertation compared Wikipedia
articles-in-Britannica-format to real Britannica articles and got pretty
much the same responses. We have our archival students work on Wikipedia
articles on archives and I know other archival educators do the same. I
teach digital preservation and really the technical articles have been
pretty good from the start and are especially good for the history of
hardware.

Pat Galloway



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        Date: 2019-01-11 12:26:41+00:00
        From: Gabriel Egan 
        Subject: Re: [Humanist] 32.316: thoughts on Wikipedia

Dear HUMANISTs

One positive aspect of Wikipedia I don't think I've
seen lauded here is its scrupulous attention to the
problem of choosing the correct forms of the names
of historical figures. The guidance on the page
"Wikipedia:Naming conventions (people)" is quite
superb and I use it as my authority on names when
editing articles for the two traditional academic
journals of which I am a co-editor.

Regards

Gabriel Egan






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        Date: 2019-01-11 06:50:17+00:00
        From: Willard McCarty 
        Subject: Wikipedia

I use Wikipedia all the time as a starting point. It often proves to be
an excellent one. I'm frequently venturing into areas of scholarship I
know little about, so I need the help of overviews which cite sources I
can follow, sift and move on from. In essence the process is no
different than the one I learned as an MA student decades ago, only now
I do it from home. Wikipedia has become an essential tool for which I am
profoundly grateful.

Yours,
WM
--
Willard McCarty (www.mccarty.org.uk/),
Professor emeritus, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London;
Adjunct Professor, Western Sydney University; Editor, Interdisciplinary
Science Reviews (www.tandfonline.com/loi/yisr20) and Humanist
(www.dhhumanist.org)




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