WIKIPEDIA is now politically correct to use as a reference resource
http://whygive.wikimedia.org/2007/12/07/can-you-trust-wikipedia/
8th December 2007, ResearchBuzz notes:
"OCLC Hooks Up With Wikipedia"
.. . . " search over a billion items in
over 10,000 libraries around the world."
http://www.academic-genealogy.com/melvyluniversityofcaliforniagenealogyfamilyhistory.htm#research
" Now the xISBN service has been hooked up
with Wikipedia! That means you can enter a URL
and have xISBN generate a list of related URLs,
and then check those URLs against the ISBNs
on Wikipedia."
http://www.researchbuzz.org/wp/2007/12/08/oclc-hooks-up-with-wikipedia/
November 2007, Amazon Kindle, an electronic
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Kindle
book (e-book) service is launched in the United States
by Amazon.com.
The Official Kindle product page notes:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000FI73MA/
" Includes free wireless access to the planet's
most exhaustive and up-to-date encyclopedia--
Wikipedia.org."
November 27, 2007, Inside Higher Education
News adds, under . . . New Ways to Collaborate . . .
"How does the university develop its academic enterprise?"
.. . . "And now that both Microsoft and Google offer tools that
allow students to publish their work -- and edit it, in real time,
with others -- the adoption of these Web services presents
an op****tunity for universities to evolve their approaches in
the classroom as well" . . . such as "posting term papers on
Wikipedia to be peer-edited by classmates" . . .
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2007/11/27/email
October 29, 2007, Inside Higher Education News
suggests: "The ****ft to thinking about placing the term
paper as a Wikipedia encyclopedia entry allows for
another level of peer review," . . .
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2007/10/29/wikipedia
August 27, 2007, the Taipei Times noted:
Academics debate Wikipedia's value . . .
.. . .
"For S.T. Huang . . . , associate professor of the
National Pingtung University of Science and Technology,
the online encyclopedia, with its use of the open-source
software "Wiki," can be used to preserve "disappearing
local knowledge." Huang and some local activists in
southern Taiwan have been dedicated to the task of
ac***ulating local knowledge for more than 10 years.
He said that Wikipedia will help the team establish
a local knowledge database for Taiwan that can be
accessed by people all over the world."
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2007/08/14/2003374123
Earlier reference:
A Case Study on the Veracity of the "Wiki" concept . . .
http://www.journalism.org/node/1676
MULTI-SOURCE REFERENCE using WIKIPEDIA:
Regional Genealogy and Local History Research:
Local History and Genealogy ****tals to the World.
http://www.academic-genealogy.com/regionalgenealogy.htm
Regional genealogy and local history research includes:
areas, countries, directories, ethnic group populations,
organizations, local ancestry and local history studies.
Respectfully yours,
Tom Tinney, Sr.
Who's Who in America,
Millennium Edition [54th] through 2004
Who's Who In Genealogy and Heraldry, [both editions]
Family Genealogy & History Internet Education Directory
http://www.academic-genealogy.com/
Professional worldwide humanities and social sciences mega ****tal,
connected directly to thousands of related sub-sets, with billions of
primary or secondary database family history and genealogy records.
It encomp***** all other key worldwide genealogy and surname sites.
"vctinney@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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