Wikipedia Redux

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Wikipedia Redux

• Comparison of Wikipedia to Subscription
  Resources, or where should you tell students to
  look

Joy PileAlec McLaneNEMLA Spring 2008Tufts
UniversityMarch 17, 2008
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Bizets Carmen
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New Grove
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Death dates
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Herbert Callhoff
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Dora Pejacevic
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Dub (Music)
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Dub (Wikipedia article)
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So what to tell the students?

• Evaluate resources
• When using Wikipedia fact check it with other
  sources
• Compare all resources search broadly

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What should we ask of commercial databases?

• Links both internal ones and external ones to
  bibliographic resources and sound files
• More frequent updates, especially for
  artist/composer death dates.
• All articles should be signed demonstrating the
  responsibility for scholarship.

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World music Biography
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World music Biography
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Musical instruments Qin (Guqin) Garland
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Qin (Guqin) Garland cont.
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Qin (Guqin) Garland cont.
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Qin (Guqin) Wikipedia
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Musical genres - Dub Garland (in Popular
Music in the English-, French-, and
Creole-Speaking Caribbean)
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Pansori - Garland
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Pansori Garland (cont.)
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Pansori Garland (cont.)
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Pansori Garland (cont.)
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Pansori Wikipedia
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Wikipedia

• Strong focus on a mainstream popular culture
  framework
• Web 2.0 features enhance learning and research
• BUT Treat with scholarly skepticism