All,
I've come across this great little podcast episode from Vanderbilt
university in the US.
It is a presentation by Michael Bess, history professor, about how he
uses wikipedia in his classes to analyse the archive of talkpages for
contentious articles (he uses the example of [[talk:Debate over the
atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki]] ) to get his students to
understand what methodological/epistemological issues arise in
historianship.
What he says is probably not news to us, but it is nice to be hearing
that wikipedia is being put to this kind of usage by such an eminent
academic.
http://blogs.vanderbilt.edu/cftpodcast/?p=4
p.s. sorry if this is 'old news', I just found out by a link that was
put in the comments to the interview I did for "Digital Campus" from
wikimania
http://digitalcampus.tv/2008/07/21/episode-30-live-from-egypt/
Best,
-Liam
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