E-Learning-Inclusivo (Mashup)

Pour sa première conférence le réseau prof@brest pour une école créative et (...)

Via Bruno De Lièvre

A hardened corps of volunteer editors is the only force protecting Wikipedia. They might also be killing it.

Wikipedia is the sixth most popular website in the world. It’s the quickest way to get the lowdown on the Battle of Nashville, find out exactly how old Ruth Bader Ginsburg is, or discover who invented Hot Pockets. You can find more authoritative specialized resources online—from the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy to IMDb— but nothing is as comprehensive. The English-language edition, the largest of Wikipedia’s 287 language editions, now includes more than 4.5 million entries, and 11 other editions have more than a million each.

Few of the tens of millions of readers who rely on Wikipedia give much thought to where its content comes from or why the site, which is crowdsourced and open (at least in theory) for anyone to edit, doesn’t degenerate into gibberish and graffiti. Like Google or running water, it is simply there. Yet its very existence is something of a miracle. Despite its ocean of content, this vital piece of informational infrastructure is the work of a surprisingly small community of volunteers. Only about 3,000 editors contribute more than 100 changes a month to the English-language Wikipedia, down from a high of more than 4,700 in early 2007. Without any central direction or outside recognition, these dedicated amateurs create, refine, and maintain millions of content pages....

Via Jeff Domansky

Wikipedia has changed its terms of service in a move that now requires editors to disclose whether or not they are being paid.

Via Ken Morrison

Wikipedia begins piloting a service that sends articles via text message, primarily aimed at users in Africa.

Via Dr. Susan Bainbridge

From Ukraine to Egypt, universities are looking to drop traditional requirements for scholarly papers in favor of internet entries. (RT @WikimediaCA: Write an #academic thesis or improve #Wikipedia?

Via Dr. Susan Bainbridge

If the entire Wikipedia Encyclopedia were available as a physical printed book, it would span 7500 volumes. And someone is just trying to make that happen.

Via Marta Torán

Millones de personas consultan la Wikipedia a diario y aunque esta gigantesca librería carece de respeto científico, lo cierto es que  es una herramienta de uso masivo por parte de los internautas. Sin embrago la misma no dispone de una atractiva interfaz de visualización, pero eso es mientras no conozcas WikiGalaxy.

WikiGalaxy es un interesante buscador diseñado para la Wikipedia, que nos permite visualizar los artículos contenidos en la misma como una galaxia en 3D.

Via Gumersindo Fernández, Rui Guimarães Lima