Wikis and Wikipedia as a Teaching Tool
Internet breathes life into dying languages | Lifestyle | Reuters
"To put it into perspective only two to four percent of the world's botanical and zoological species are in serious danger, whereas it's 50 percent of languages. The language crisis hasn't attracted the same degree of public awareness".
Wikipedia:Errors in the Encyclopædia Britannica that have been corrected in Wikipedia
It’s not just students who have trouble evaluating sources… : UberNoggin: Big Brains - Big Ideas
UCSC Wiki Lab - WikiLab - The UCSC Wiki Lab
<p>We compute the reputation of Wikipedia authors according to how long their contributions last in the Wikipedia. Specifically, authors whose contributions are preserved, or built-upon, gain reputation; authors whose contributions are undone lose reputation. </p>
<p>We call this a <em>content-driven</em> reputation, since the reputation is computed automatically via text analysis. This contrasts with other reputation systems, such as those in use at <a class="external" href="http://www.ebay.com"><img src="http://trust.cse.ucsc.edu/wiki/modern/img/moin-www.png" alt="[WWW]" height="11" width="11"> Ebay</a>, where buyer and seller reputations are computed on the basis of user-provided ratings.</p>
EdTechDev: An Argument for Knols Over Wikipedia and Citizendium
Looking at the constructivism and other articles where Dlewis3 has been flooding content with arguments from Kirschner, Sweller, and Clark. This author feels that since David Lewis has made these changes that Wikipedia isn't the "nonbiased" source it claims to be. I think the author misunderstands Wikipedia's NPOV though; controversial claims can be made if they're cited, but so can arguments on the other side. NPOV doesn't mean everyone agrees on a middle point.