Vikipaedia

Our class has just finished working on our wiki projects, and is moving on to a discussion of copyright and licensing. This article in the NY Times Sunday Magazine seems very appropriate

Prize Descriptions

The author delves into the Wikipedia's policies on authorship, the culture of Wikipedia contributors, and also praises Wikipedia as the best source for explanations of new internet phenomena, video games, web tools, and technologies.

I, and I'm sure many of you, use Wikipedia regularly for quick references to all sorts of things. Students certainly are. I think it behooves to understand the strengths and weaknesses and creative processes behind this resource.