In defense of wikipedia

Law Library Journal

Volumn 100, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 593-599

  Murley, Diane ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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References (51)

1. Jim Galloway's Law Practice Tips Blog, http://jimcalloway.typepad.com/ lawpracticetips/2008/01/site-of-the-w-1.html (Jan. 22, 2008).
2. Wikipedia, Wikipedia: About, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:About (as of Mar. 18, 2008, 07:49 UTC). See 1 18 and note 30, infra, for an explanation of the format used to cite Wikipedia in this article.
3. Id.
4. Id.
5. Id.
6. Id.
7. Id.
8. Wikipedia, Wikipedia: Contributing to Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/Wikipedia:Contributing_to_Wikipedia (as of Mar. 13, 2008, 22:53 UTC); Wikipedia, Wikipedia: How to Edit a Page, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Wikipedia:How_to_edit_a_page (as of Apr. 13, 2008, 15:31 UTC).
9. See Reid Priedhorsky et al., Creating, Destroying, and Restoring Value in Wikipedia, GROUP '07: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2007 INTERNATIONAL ACM CONFERENCE ON SUPPORTING GROUP WORK 259, 259 unpaginated version available at http://www.cs.umn.edu/∼reid/papers/group282-priedhorsky.pdf.
10. Id. at 259.
11. See id. at 265; Brock Read, Can WIKIPEDIA Ever Make the Grade?, CHRON. HIGHER EDUC., Oct. 27, 2006, at A31.
12. For an example of the process, see Ann Kirschner, Adventures in the Land of Wikipedia, CHRON. HIGHER EDUC., Nov. 17, 2006, at B10.
13. Wikipedia, Help: Starting a New Page, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help: Starting_a_new_page (as of Apr. 9, 2008, 21:07 UTC).
14. JOHN BROUGHTON, WIKIPEDIA: THE MISSING MANUAL 61-69 (2008).
15. Wikipedia, Wikipedia: Neutral Point of View, http://en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_view (as of Mar. 23, 2008, 22:39 UTC).
16. See Wikipedia, Wikipedia: What Wikipedia Is Not, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:What_Wikipedia_is_not (as of Mar. 24, 2008, 13:19 UTC).
17. Wikipedia, Wikipedia: Five Pillars, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Wikipedia:Five_pillars (as of Mar. 24, 2008, 04:56 UTC).
18. Roy Rosenzweig, Can History Be Open Source? Wikipedia and the Future of the Past, 93 J. AM. HIST. 117, 125(2006).
19. Id. at 124-25.
20. Id.
21. I used terms and connectors searches for "http://en.wikipedia. org" to limit my results to articles and cases that had cited a Wikipedia article, excluding those that merely mentioned Wikipedia.
22. DAVID WEINBERGER, EVERYTHING IS MISCELLANEOUS 134-36 (2007).
23. See BROUGHTON, supra note 14, at 65-66; Wikipedia, Wikipedia: Your First Article, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia: Your_first_article (as of Mar. 24, 2008 22:47 UTC).
24. See Wikipedia, Wikipedia: Talk Page, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Wikipedia:Talk_page (as of Apr. 13, 2008, 22:03 UTC).
25. John Borland, See Who's Editing Wikipedia- Diebold, the CIA, a Campaign, WIRED, Aug. 14, 2007, http://www.wired.com/politics/ onlinerights/news/2007/08/wiki_tracker.
26. Wikipedia, Wikipedia: Academic Use, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Wikipedia:Academic_use (as of Mar. 11, 2008, 16:49 UTC) (emphasis in original).
27. Wikipedia, Wikipedia: Researching with Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia. org/wiki/Wikipedia:Researching_with_Wikipedia (as of Mar. 24, 2008, 15:08 UTC).
28. Wikipedia, Source Evaluation, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Source_evaluation (as of Oct. 21, 2007, 05:18 UTC).
29. See WEINBERGER, supra note 22, at 137-38.
30. SeeWikipedia, Wikipedia: Citing Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia. org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_Wikipedia (as of Mar. 25, 2008, 11:54 UTC) and the related discussion. See also the Harvard Journal of Law and Technology, beginning with the spring 2006 issue, for examples. GMT (Greenwich Mean Time) and UTC (Coordinated Universal Time) are the same for most purposes. See Wikipedia, Coordinated Universal Time, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Coordinated_Universal_Time (as of Apr. 12, 2008, 18:57 UTC).
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33. Wikipedia, Wikipedia: Featured Articles, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Wikipedia:Featured_articles (as of Mar. 25, 2008, 03:46 UTC).
34. Wikipedia, Wikipedia: Featured Article Candidates, http://en.wikipedia. org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_article_candidates (as of Mar. 25, 2008, 02:15 UTC).
35. Wikipedia: Featured Articles, supra note 33.
36. Wikipedia, Wikipedia: Good Articles, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Wikipedia:Good_articles (as of Apr. 14, 2008, 20:39 UTC) ("Good articles are articles which are considered to be of good quality but which are not yet, or are unlikely to reach featured article quality.").
37. Wikipedia, Wikipedia: Good Article Nominations, http://en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/Wikipedia:Good_article_nominations (as of Mar. 25, 2008, 14:35 UTC).
38. Wikipedia: Good Articles, supra note 36.
39. Wikipedia, Wikipedia: Stub, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Stub (as of Apr. 10, 2008, 13:06 UTC).
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41. Wikipedia, Category: Wikipedia Resources for Researchers, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_resources_for_researchers (as of Nov. 29, 2007, 05:35 UTC).
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43. See Priedhorsky et al., supra note 9, at 265.
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45. Rosenzweig, supra note 18, at 133.
46. Id. at 133-34.
47. See Read, supra note 11, at A31.
48. Priedhorsky et al., supra note 9, at 265-66.
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