A Wiki Situation: To wiki or not to wiki?
,” by Scott McLemee , Inside Higher Ed, June 14, 2006 — http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2006/06/14/mclemee Whether tis nobler to plunge in and write a few Wikipedia entries on subjects regarding which one has some expertise; and also, praps, to revise some of the weaker articles already available there… Or rather, taking arms against a sea of mediocrity, to mock the whole concept of an open-source, online encyclopedia that bastard spawn of American Idol and a sixth graders report copied word-for-word from the World Book…. Hamlet, of course, was nothing if not ambivalent – and my attitude towards how to deal with Wikipedia is comparably indecisive. Six years into its existence, there are now something in the neighborhood of 2 million entries, in various languages, ranging in length from one sentence to thousands of words. They are prepared and edited by an ad hoc community of contributors. There is no definitive iteration of a Wikipedia article: It can be added to, revised, or
