After the back and forth in the Wikipedia/Britannica debate, Britannica caves:
Long a standard reference source for scholarship, largely because of its tightly controlled editing, the Encyclopaedia Britannica announced this week it was throwing open its elegantly-bound covers to the masses. It will allow the “user community” (in the words of the encyclopedia’s blog) to contribute [...]

My husband told me a shocking story last night!! He and his colleagues were debating whether America’s favorite ice cream topping is called “jimmies” or “sprinkles.” One of his colleagues (and I should mention that they’re all early thirties and under) said, we’ll check Wikipedia after lunch. My husband responded, we can’t trust [...]

Well - wikis are social - but what other title could I give this post? Turns out that WetPaint has added some new social networking features to it’s wiki package.
(Seattle, Wash. – March 10, 2008) Wetpaint, the leading social publishing platform with a network of over 750,000 social sites, today unveiled a [...]

Judith Seiss points us to Veropedia.
Veropedia "is a collaborative effort by a group of Wikipedians to collect the best of Wikipedia's content, clean it up, vet it, and save it for all time. These articles are stable and cannot be edited." It is not competing with Wikipedia"”they "prefer to think of [themselves] as a meta-layer, [...]

I presented with Sarah Theimer from Syracuse this morning. Sarah talked about how they use MediaWiki for keeping track of procedures. She started by asking “Will a wiki work?” and her answer was “Sort of” - my answer is YES!
It was fun to listen to Sarah because a lot of [...]

I have to catalog a lot of foreign language materials at work - and I speak 1 language (typical American). So I use a tool called Babylon (not a freebie) to help me translate bits of text as I search through OCLC for the right copy.
Well, now the makers of Babylon are trying [...]

This is pretty neat. I just learned about WikiMindMap. It’s a tool that lets you browse Wikipedia articles graphically.
Here’s a little search I did for Library.

By clicking the links on the image (were you on the WikiMindMap page) you are brought to the article in question on Wikipedia.
Technorati Tags: wikipedia, wikimindmap

A simple search of published court decisions shows that Wikipedia is frequently cited by judges around the country, involving serious issues and the bizarre "” such as a 2005 tax case before the Tennessee Court of Appeals concerning the definition of "beverage" that involved hundreds of thousands of dollars, and, just this week, a case [...]

Apparently PBWiki has upgraded their WYSIWYG Editor - I didn’t even know that they had one. I just edited my schedule on the CIL wiki and had my first experience with the new and improved editor - and it’s a bit annoying for someone who knows how to code - but I can see [...]

I just found this very interesting article in InformationWeek which predicts the fall of Wikipedia [via Law Librarian Blog].
Wikipedia will fail in four years, crushed under the weight of an automated assault by marketers and others seeking online traffic.
It’s a pretty interesting article - and could very well be true - as spammers and marketers [...]

The Wall Street Journal Online has an interesting email conversation between Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia and Dale Hoiberg, editor-in-chief of Britannica. For those of you who are behind on the encyclopedia debate you can find my other posts here, here and here.
The “discussion” starts with Wales stating:
The strengths include a much greater timeliness, [...]

A funny comic to end your day.

Sorry I couldn’t resist.
I’m sure you remember the Nature/Britannica debate back in December of 2005 and March of this year. If you don’t you can read about it here and here.
Well yesterday Tom at Tombrarian posted a link to the response from Nature to Britannica’s claims that their article was not written [...]

I haven’t finished reading yet - but I can tell this is going to be a good article. Take a look at The Hive published in The Atlantic Monthly. It’s an article about Wikipedia and its history.

Wired News has an article about Wiki.com.
Launched over the weekend, Wiki.com joins the already populous field of do-it-yourself wiki sites, which allow anyone to add and edit content on a specified topic.
In its first day live, visitors have been snapping up subdomains with topical words, like soccer.wiki.com, or common first names.
Currently, anyone can register a [...]

Have you seen this video yet? Stephen Colbert on Wikiality. I’ve seen it mentioned too many places to give credit to everyone - but today I saw it on Information Wants to be Free.

Last week was my birthday so I had some time off of work and then some time catching up at work.
I’m also on the board of directors for our township’s adult education program and we’re desperately trying to build onto our class offerings, but unlike the other area night schools, ours is not [...]

If you read my last post you saw that I was a little disappointed that I did the LITA National Forum Wiki before I learned about Wetpaint. Well Chris Kollas from Wetpaint also read that post and has offered to help me move all of the info from pbwiki to Wetpaint so that I [...]

There is another free hosted wiki option to add to the mix. Wetpaint looks pretty darn slick.
Combining the best of wikis, blogs, and forums, Wetpaint is the canvas where everyone gets a brush. From personal expression to collaboration, Wetpaint empowers you to connect with others on whatever you’re passionate about.
I kind of wish [...]

Spead the word! I have set up an unofficial wiki for the LITA National Forum which will take place in Nashville, TN this year.
This will be my first year attending - and presenting - and I feel a little lost with the whole thing. I know that other conference wikis have helped me get [...]

At the beginning of the year I set up my first MediaWiki site. It wasn’t easy to figure everything out - and there is A LOT to figure out. But now that everything is set up I have another problem - no activity.
The wiki site is my collaborative writing site Tag [...]

I guess you could do this with any wiki package - but JotSpot is marketing pages just for your family. With JotSpot Family Site you can:

Share a family calendar

See your family on a map!

Build your family tree

Create a secure site for your family

Put all your family recipes in one place

Plan your family reunion!

What a [...]

Back in December there was a lot of news coverage regarding an article in Nature magazine that stated that both Wikipedia and Britannica had a similar number of errors. Well Britannica has replied with a 20 page report (which I have not read all of - for reasons already stated - I’m way behind)
In its [...]

I don’t get it! Why is it that everyone is out to get the Wikipedia? Why is it that no one seems to realize that it’s a great invention and is not meant to replace your usual sources of information - but to promote community - and learning for that matter?
How? Well, when I [...]

The unofficial Computers in Libraries 2006 Conference wiki is now up and running.
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