Tag: wikipédia

«Le chercheur, le wikipédien et le vandale»: intervention du sociologue Antonio Casilli à la Journée d’étude Wikipédia, objet scientifique non… read more [Vidéo] A la journée “Wikipédia. Objet scientifique non indentifié” (CNRS, 5 juin 2013)

The French translation of this essay is available on OWNI (part 1 and part 2), as installments of my column… read more The academic, the wikipedian, the vandal [Full version, updated 05.11.2012]

You can tell that in a nation the cultural and political situation has reached a height of obscurantism when even encyclopedias go on strike.

Just a quick post to announce that Kurt Luther and his social computing crew at Georgia Tech have released Proveit, an amazing little open-source tool that allows you to find, edit, add, and cite references in Wikipedia articles! Proveit is designed specifically for Wikipedians, so all you need is a Wikipedia account. You install it once, and each time you log in – from any computer – there it is. Better than Zotero, from this point of view 😉 Plus, it works with virtually any browser, from Firefox to Chrome, from Safari to Opera. It is even said to work with Explorer – although admittedly this hardly is a plus.

A database of the most vandalised Wikipedia articles has been released on the Wiki-research mailing list: a useful portrayal of the cultural interests (and cultural biases) of the entire community.

(This is just my opinion. But in case you had to face a similar decision this might help…) It’s the… read more Creative Commons or Wikipedia? Who to support?

Laurent, M., & Vickers, T. (2009). Seeking Health Information Online: Does Wikipedia Matter? Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association,… read more A crazy idea everybody's having: using Wikipedia for health information

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