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<a href="http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-139473380/collaborative-content-wikipedia-phenomenon.html" title="Facts and information about Collaborative content - The Wikipedia phenomenon. Wikipedia is a rapidly expanding encyclopaedia of communally assembled information, but can information professionals really trust the knowledge that is being put together here? Or is the world now embracing a new form of knowledge repository that undermines many of our sacred principles? Marcus Austin gets deep inside the wiki concept of collective wisdom.">Collaborative content - The Wikipedia phenomenon. Wikipedia is a rapidly expanding encyclopaedia of communally assembled information, but can information professionals really trust the knowledge that is being put together here? Or is the world now embracing a new form of knowledge repository that undermines many of our sacred principles? Marcus Austin gets deep inside the wiki concept of collective wisdom.</a>
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Collaborative content - The Wikipedia phenomenon. Wikipedia is a rapidly expanding encyclopaedia of communally assembled information, but can information professionals really trust the knowledge that is being put together here? Or is the world now embracing a new form of knowledge repository that undermines many of our sacred principles? Marcus Austin gets deep inside the wiki concept of collective wisdom.
Wikis are a fast-growing phenomenon, but they're certainly not without controversy, particularly in the media and the academic world. Wikipedia, the big daddy of all wikis, seems to polarise opinion more than most.
So what is a wiki, and what is Wikipedia? The easiest solution would be to look for a definition in Wikipedia itself. Here you'll find: "Wikipedia is a multilingual web-based free-content encyclopedia". But, given that most of the controversy about Wikipedia is about its accuracy, then, in the spirit of wikis, let's create our own definition.
Wikipedia is an online collaborative encyclopaedia created by nerds and geeks and often - if not ...
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