Category: Wikipedia
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Two Quick Observations Regarding Online Community
I’m buried in work and research but I have two thoughts dancing on my mind and they’re both related to online community: I hate when websites or tools list reader comments in reverse chronological order i.e. newest messages first. I finally figured out why I hate that: It makes it very difficult to view the…
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Coverage and Prominence of U.S. College and University Wikipedia Articles
A colleague and I are presenting a paper at ASHE in a few months discussing the content of Wikipedia college and university articles. The most common comment the reviewers made of our paper proposal was that we did not quite answer the “So what?” question. In other words, we didn’t quite convince them that our…
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Wikipedia As A Lens Into Public Perception of American Higher Education
A few weeks ago, a colleague (Chris Medrano) and I submitted a paper to the 2010 ASHE conference. The paper is a content analysis of Wikipedia articles covering American colleges and universities. Chris and I believe that we – higher education scholars, administrators, and policy makers – can learn a lot about what the general…