Tag: wikipedia

17 Dec 2007

Not what I had in mind: Knols

If you live under a rock, an overview of knols. This is not what I had in mind when I said I was no longer going to be linking to Wikipedia. A Wikipedia replacement/substitute may be an alright initiative (if it does well, so be it, if not, that is ok too), but it still [...]

13 Dec 2007

New Linking Policy, please adopt

I often link to Wikipedia. No, it is not authoritative. Encyclopedias have not for a long time, probably at least the past 75 years, been an authoritative reference on the state of academic knowledge. They have instead transformed into a general reference, a starting point for further reference and research. There was a time, of [...]