[PW] Grading Wikipedia

[Lois Fundis]

As a follow-up to the Wikipedia controversy on the
list last week, I thought I'd post a link to this
article from the Denver Post
<http://www.denverpost.com/entertainment/ci_5786064>
in which 5 professors from the area were asked their
opinion of Wikipedia's coverage of topics in their
areas of expertise. Only one of the profs gave
Wikipedia low marks for "mediocrity."  

Moi? I've edited several Wikipedia pages myself, and
am especially proud of the one on Yohogania County,
Virginia -- a place that doesn't exist anymore, indeed
hardly existed at all to begin with, but where I've
lived nearly all of my life. I did a major rewriting
of the page back in September of 2005, including
adding links to sources, not least of which are maps
(since much of the confusion about Yohogania is over
what present-day areas it covered), and most of what's
there now is still basically mine.

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