Trust & Knowledge
As of yesterday I'm back at university, had my first lecture of the new semester yesterday which includes all the basics, what text book to buy, what times the tutorials are, and of course, a stern warning on the evils of Wikipedia, according my history lecturer Wikipedia is not to be trusted, in fact she was adament that if any of us cite Wikipedia we would fail the course.
Not every historian agrees however, scholorly work by people such as George Mason University history professor Roy Rosenzweig has showen Wikipedia to be in general as accurate as other encyclopedias ("Wikipedia, then, beats Encarta...in coverage and roughly matches Encarta in accuracy"). There is some good discussion of Rosenweigs work on the If:Book blog and an interesting essay of his "Can History be Open Source? Wikipedia and the Future of the Past" originally published in The Journal of American History Volume 93 is available online.
Another interesting view on Wikis and the new methods of knowledge sharing is given by Mark Pesce a lecturer in the interactive media program at AFTRS, video of a lecture given during the April 2007 Education.AU tour of Australia’s capitol cities with Jimmy Wales (founder of Wikipedia) is available on his blog.
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