"A dowdy education system hides its flaws inside larded layers of snobbery and obscurantism."
I feel like more and more educators are open-minded about Wikipedia -- for example our blog posts about Tel Aviv University teaching a course in Wikipedia and Wikipedians-in-residence in some of Europe's oldest universities.
Is the statement above -- fine in the writer's opinion piece -- a poke in the eye if shared by us?
On Friday, December 11, 2015, Joe Sutherland jsutherland@wikimedia.org wrote:
This looks good to me. Jeff and Michael, what do you think?
On 9 December 2015 at 21:28, Charles Gregory <wmau.lists@chuq.net javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','wmau.lists@chuq.net');> wrote:
Hi team,
I'd like to suggest sharing this article: "Don't fall for Wiki-denial: there's nothing wrong with using Wikipedia" from Elizabeth Farrelly in The Sydney Morning Herald:
http://www.smh.com.au/comment/why-wikipedia-at-15-is-a-beautiful-exercise-in...
Already shared at: https://twitter.com/wm_au/status/674700508712439809 https://www.facebook.com/wikimedia.au/posts/920382398015453
Regards,
Charles (User:Chuq / WMAU)
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