Jonathan Opp has posted an interview with Joseph Michael Reagle, Jr, author a recent book about Wikipedia. From the interview:
This question of openness is a fascinating one, and I ultimately conclude that there is no such thing as perfect openness. Rather, there is a delicate balancing act between being too open and too closed, as Clay Shirky has noted.
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Tagged e-learning, Internet, oer, online learning, open content, openness, Wikipedia
iThenticate has a new post discussing the case of author Michel Houellebecq who “plagiarized” Wikipedia.
Steve Kolowich has written an article on students being required to edit Wikipedia for class. From the post:
In recent years, academics seem to have gotten used to Wikipedia being around (and have perhaps recognized its efforts to keep out bad information), and much of the discussion has shifted to how it can be applied constructively.
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Tagged commons, higher education, oer, open content, Open Education, Wikipedia
Teemu Leinonen has a new post comparing the top articles among Wikipedias of different languages. From the post:
The most hypnotic new thing I found during the WikiSym/Wikimania is probably the Wikipedia article traffic statistics.
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Tagged e-learning, oer, online learning, open content, openness, Wikipedia
Brian Lamb has a new post on the state of the wiki in higher education. Since wikis are often used in open education projects, the post may be of interest to readers. From the post:
There is obvious value to wikis as part of an online toolkit, especially for the creation of open content.
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Tagged higher education, Internet, Open Education, openness, Wikipedia
Noam Cohen is reporting that Wikimedia is planning to expand its staff. From the article:
By hiring more employees and raising more money, the foundation hopes to nearly double the number of unique visitors to the site by 2015, to 680 million a month…
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Noam Cohen has a new post on The British Museum working with Wikipedia. From the article:
About 40 Wikipedia contributors in the London area spent Friday with a “backstage pass” to the museum, meeting with curators and taking photographs of the collection. And in a curious reversal in status, curators were invited to review Wikipedia’s treatment of the museum’s collection and make a case that important pieces were missing or given short shrift.
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Tagged commons, e-learning, ocw, oer, online learning, open content, openness, Wikipedia
Jimmy Wales has published an article through Forbes India about the spread of information in languages besides English. From the article:
World wide, the number of people speaking English is actually quite small; but for a long time, the people who spoke English and the people who had computers were basically the same people.
Now, the economics have shifted dramatically away from top-down content toward community-created content.
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Jolie O’Dell has a new post about PediaPress, a book publisher that creates custom books from Wikipedia entries. From the post:
PediaPress is already up and running in 17 languages, serving 33 countries.
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Tagged copy right, copyright, oer, open content, Wikipedia
Jill Laster is reporting that Wikipedia is encouraging video uploads. From the post:
Three nonprofit groups — Miro, Mozilla Drumbeat, and the Open Video Alliance — began a campaign this month with support from the Wikimedia Foundation encouraging users to upload videos onto the Web site. Wikipedia asks that videos be short, under 100MB, and comply with the encyclopedia’s rules.
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