This is at least the 4th time this month I've wanted to access something on
the times so... signed up for at least a 3 month trial.
The original letter to the editor is short:
Sir, I am — as he knows — an enthusiastic admirer of Giles Coren, but he is
> badly misinformed about Wikipedia (“Why stop at Trump?”, Dec 12). As a
> writer of history I resort to it at least a dozen times a day. I could
> never have written my last two books without it, and I have never caught it
> out yet, which is more than I can say of the Encyclopedia Britannica. Its
> range is astonishing: it is almost impossible to find a person, place or
> subject that it has left uncovered.
>
I believe that we now have at our elbow a work of reference as useful as
> any in existence; I can only implore Giles and any others who doubt these
> words to cast aside their prejudices and try it for themselves. As for me,
> I can’t believe my luck.
>
John Julius Norwich
> London, W9
There are some good comments too. The #1 is a poem which is awesome:
ROBERT Vincent2 days ago
>
> At breakfast John Julius Norwich
> nearly choked on a spoonful of porridge
> when Giles Coren, he'd heard,
> had clamed it absurd
> for research Wikipedia to forage.
James Alexander
Manager
Trust & Safety
Wikimedia Foundation
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On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 1:45 PM, Joe Sutherland <jsutherland(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
> This does sound pretty good! I don't have access to the Times either, and
> asking around it seems not many do...
>
> On 16 December 2015 at 07:44, Pine W <wiki.pine(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> The lead is promising, though much of the letter is paywalled.
>>
>> "Sir, I am — as he knows — an enthusiastic admirer of Giles Coren, but he
>> is badly misinformed about Wikipedia (“Why stop at Trump?”, Dec 12). As a
>> writer of history I resort to it at least a dozen times a day. I could
>> never have written my last two books without it, and I have never caught it
>> out yet, which is more than I can say of the Encyclopedia Britannica. Its
>> range is astonishing: it is almost impossible to find a person, place or
>> subject that it has left uncovered (end of my preview).... a work of
>> reference as useful as any in existence..."
>>
>> Thanks to Johnbod for pointing this out!
>> http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/opinion/letters/article4639798.ece
>>
>> Pine
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The lead is promising, though much of the letter is paywalled.
"Sir, I am — as he knows — an enthusiastic admirer of Giles Coren, but he
is badly misinformed about Wikipedia (“Why stop at Trump?”, Dec 12). As a
writer of history I resort to it at least a dozen times a day. I could
never have written my last two books without it, and I have never caught it
out yet, which is more than I can say of the Encyclopedia Britannica. Its
range is astonishing: it is almost impossible to find a person, place or
subject that it has left uncovered (end of my preview).... a work of
reference as useful as any in existence..."
Thanks to Johnbod for pointing this out!
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/opinion/letters/article4639798.ece
Pine
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Thanks again, Dan Garry, for pointing me on this again-ill formatted mail.
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Hey all,
I would highly recommend engaging in these talks if you can: the technical
implications of research on Wikipedia have a lot of potential for
activating more Education, Library and GLAM partners.
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Date: Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 3:55 PM
Subject: [GLAM] Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] "Wikipedia as the front matter to all
research": A brown bag on scholarly citations in Wikipedia this Friday 12/4
@ 12 PT
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May be of interest to GLAM folks.
Pine
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Date: Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 11:01 AM
Subject: [Wikimedia-l] "Wikipedia as the front matter to all research": A
brown bag on scholarly citations in Wikipedia this Friday 12/4 @ 12 PT
To: wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org, Research into Wikimedia content and
communities <wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Come and join us for a brown bag this Friday December 4 at 12 PT to learn
about unique identifiers and scholarly citations in Wikipedia, why they
matter and how we can bridge the gap between the Wikimedia, research and
librarian communities.
Wikipedia as the front matter to all research
YouTube stream: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mB_oexqz8pA <
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Event information on Meta:
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Measuring citizen engagement with the scholarly literature through
Wikipedia citations.
Geoffrey Bilder, CrossRef
Wikipedia (in toto) is probably the 5th largest referrer of citations to
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citations to the scholarly literature *from* Wikipedia domains than from
any single scholarly publisher in the world. What does this tell us about
general interest in the scholarly literature? What does this tell us about
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Building the sum of all human citations
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As sourcing and verifiability of online information are threatened <
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Wikidata.
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Bonus read: a real-time tracker of scholarly citations added to Wikipedia,
built with Raspberry Pi
http://blog.crossref.org/2015/12/crossref-labs-plays-with-the-raspberry-pi-…
<
http://blog.crossref.org/2015/12/crossref-labs-plays-with-the-raspberry-pi-…
>
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