THIS JUST IN!
Before finishing writing up my Thing 3 entry, I learned about the first Wikipedia in Higher Education Summit, which will be held at Simmons College this July 6-8! This is a timely coincidence given today's investigation into Web 2.0 initiatives in archives, and the aforementioned see-saw of advantages and disadvantages resulting from 2.0 implementation! Check out the Wikimedia Foundation Report Public Policy Initiative or the Outreach Page for more information.
Here, also, is an interesting opinion article on embracing Wikipedia in higher education, in which Professor Mark A. Wilson (Geology, College of Wooster) advocates for academics to become active, registered editors on Wikpedia. ...For you to take or leave. He does claim (re: advent of Wikpedia) that "librarians were right: the world has not been the same since". Of course we were. Boom.
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