Tag Archives: Wikipedia

Truthiness in Wikipedia

“Wikipedia and the Meaning of Truth: Why the online encyclopedia’s epistemology should worry those who care about traditional notions of accuracy. By Simson L. Garfinkel”
From Technology Review (November/December 2008)
Very interesting article on the “authority” of Wikipedia.  Some highlights:
On Wikipedia, objective truth isn’t all that important, actually. What makes a fact or statement fit for inclusion [...]

Nicholson Baker on Wikipedia

Whatever you may think of Wikipedia, or Nicholson Baker (bête noire of librarians!), you will enjoy this “review” from the New York Times Review of Books of a book called Wikipedia: the missing manual by John Broughton.
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/21131
The article is called “The Charms of Wikipedia” and it really isn’t a review: it’s Baker enthusiastically, hilariously, and [...]