Parmi les dix premiers sites visités au monde, Wikipédia est désormais d’un usage courant dans le milieu éducatif et scientifique. Mais quelles sont exactement les relations que les chercheurs ont nouées avec la plus célèbre encyclopédie participative et collaborative en ligne ? Tel est l’objet de ce livre collectif et interdisciplinaire, où alternent études de cas et réflexions transversales.
Source : Wikipédia, objet scientifique non identifié – Presses universitaires de Paris Ouest
“The publication of the Claimant’s birth year in the online lexicon Wikipedia does not infringe upon her general right of personality or data protection law,” said the Amtsgericht München, a local court in Munich. It added that the Claimant is a “renowned producer of documentaries” who has published a documentary almost annually since 1987.
As society turns to Wikipedia for answers, students, educators, and citizens should understand its limitations when researching scientific topics that are politically charged. On entries subject to edit-wars, like acid rain, evolution, and global change, one can obtain – within seconds – diametrically different information on the same topic.
Histography is an interactive timeline that spans across 14 billion years of history, from the Big Bang to 2015
Source : Histography – Timeline of History
After weeks of investigation, volunteer editors on English Wikipedia announced today that they blocked 381 user accounts for “black hat” editing.
Source : Hundreds of “black hat” English Wikipedia accounts blocked following investigation « Wikimedia blog
I wondered what 152 edits — from stub page to fleshed out — looked like, so I created this animation of the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church Wikipedia page as it was created
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