Friday, July 31, 2009

Thing 18

I'm familiar with wikis through Wikipedia and wix.com, on which I made my library web page. I had not previously thought about Wikipedia's organization, however. I looked up P.G. Wodehouse, one of my favorite authors. I discovered that the his entry was supported by the A&E network, and then edited by Vanity Fair. The grammar as well as the content was edited; several discrepancies were noted and changed. The links to his many works were exhaustive and very helpful. I know Wikipedia isn't authoritative in the usual sense, but it is far preferable to Googling a topic and getting 3,987,351 results, most of which are ads.

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