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Tag: Wikis

Wiki history–a good object lesson

Posted on September 12, 2006 by Mills

I’ve been writing a good bit this year about the Wikipedia as a tool for history students and teachers. Regular readers of this blog will know that I’m more sanguine than many about the possibilities of wiki-history and that I don’t dismiss the Wikipedia outright as is fashionable to do these days. This is not…

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Wikis Past and Future

Posted on July 10, 2006 by Mills

My colleague Roy Rosenzweig has just published “Can History be Open Source? Wikipedia and the Future of the Past” in the Journal of American History (93/1), in which he offers both a history of the Wikipedia and suggestions for its future, especially as concerns history and historians. If you don’t already know the history of…

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Whither Wiki?

Posted on June 14, 2006June 15, 2011 by Mills

So it’s come to this…Jimmy Wales, founder of the Wikipedia, advises college students to avoid his creation. Before reading the article, check out Jeremy Boggs’ commentary on it and Roy Rosenzweig’s essay in the Journal of American History, “Can History Be Open Source?“. Finally, Scott McLemee’s take on Wikipedia is also worth perusing. Should teachers…

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What’s for dinner (cont’d)

Posted on May 17, 2006June 10, 2011 by Mills

In two previous posts (1) (2), I explored what happened when the historical archaeologists Julie Schlabitsky and Kelly Dixon used modern forensic archaeology techniques to investigate what happened at the Donner family encampment. I also described what happened to my edits of the Wikipedia entry on the Donner Party (which has now been edited 34…

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