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New spaces for teaching, learning and supervision
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"The Internet Archive has transformed 130,000 references to books in Wikipedia into live links to 50,000 digitized Internet Archive books in several Wikipedia language editions including English, Greek, and Arabic ..." 
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"If recklessly clicking through hundreds of entries no longer does it for you, Wikiverse is about to become your new favorite way of browsing Wikipedia ..."
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"There’s no denying that learning the research and citation process is an important task ..."
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"I wanted to write a simple article to show children to get them interested in chemistry. There is no gigantic cosmic idea here, just Wikipedia pictures and the common theme of pretty chemicals ..."
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"The most cited source in secondary and higher education student papers is now getting the same kind of plagiarism check those student papers also often get ..."
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"Wikipedia is one of the most popular sites on the planet, and with good reason: it's the fastest way to get an overview of almost any topic. And while it's not a site without controversy, it's hard to imagine the web without it ..."
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"A site that began as place to annotate hip hop lyrics thinks it’s figured out how to spread annotation to the wider Web ..."
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"The crowdsourced encyclopedia is scorned in academe when it ought to be embraced for classroom use ..."
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"...It is, however, a perfect place for an online African "ark" that will collect and preserve the continent's endangered languages and traditions,..."
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"Imagine being able to hear a great historical figure's voice. It would add such richness to the facts and dates about her or his life ..."
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"If an “American Idol” also-ran can have his own page on the online encyclopedia, is there no limit? Apparently there is, as some people find out the hard way ..."
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"Wikipedia is a widely used internet tool, but err on the side of caution as we look at why it isn't as credible as you think ..."
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"Replacing "alternative facts" with a footnoted, neutral point of view. Some professors say students work harder knowing their research will have a broad audience ..."
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"Bots are a useful tool on Wikipedia: they identify and undo vandalism, add links and perform other tedious tasks set by their human masters. But even these ..."
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"In a joint endeavor with KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden, Wikipedia is set to implement new open source text-to-speech capabilities spanning several languages by September 2017 ..."
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"Looking to use Wikipedia articles outside of the site? Here are four useful ways to export any page ..."
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"Many students start their research process on Wikipedia. Not because they’re being defiant, but because the site comes up first in many online searches ..."
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"The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy may be the most interesting website on the internet. Not because of the content—which includes fascinating entries on everything from ambiguity to zombies—but because of the site itself ..."
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"One academic's experience on how Wikipedia can help students become better writers, better researchers and even better thinkers ..."
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"A Chrome experiment that turns the vast world of Wikipedia pages into a cosmic, starry nebula ..."
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"Can the Wikipedia faithful move beyond banal bickering to a more welcoming editing environment? ..."
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"In an extreme makeover for the traditional term paper, scores of UC Berkeley undergrads are working to research and write articles for Wikipedia, one of the world's most visited websites worldwide ..."
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"Wikipedia's Jake Orlowitz says there "is a certain amount of shame and denial that comes with using the site" that professors should overcome..."
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