RE: What to Do With Wikipedia - one librarian's view

An amusing article on Wikipedia is in the latest New York
Review of
Books:

http://www.nybo
oks.com/articles/21131

It reviews "Wikipedia: The Missing Manual" by John
Broughton, Pogue
Press/O'Reilly 477 pp., $29.99 (paper)

John D. Moore
Assistant Librarian for Public Services
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
202-312-5503 


Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2008 15:45:51 -0800 (PST)
From: "B.G. Sloan" <bgsloan2yahoo.com>
Subject: [Web4lib] What to Do With Wikipedia - one
librarian's view 
To: web4libwebjunction.org
 
  Badke, William. What to Do With Wikipedia. Online, 32(2).
March/April
2008.
  htt
p://www.infotoday.com/online/mar08/Badke.shtml
   
  An excerpt:
   
  "If you want to get five opinions from four
information professionals,
just mention Wikipedia. Often banned by professors, panned
by
traditional reference book publishers, and embraced by just
about
everyone else, Wikipedia marches on like a great beast,
growing larger
and more commanding every day. With no paid editors and
written by
almost anyone, it shouldn't have succeeded, but it
has."
   
  Bernie Sloan

       
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