On 4/15/05, Jimmy Wales <jwales(a)wikia.com> wrote:
Andrew Lih wrote:
FYI, something I just found on the Encarta
Feedback FAQ, that might be
of interest:
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How are my suggested edits researched?
Graduate students at the University of Washington Information School
are fact-checking all proposed changes to Encarta. They are trained in
Microsoft has extended an invitation for me to come and give a talk in
Redmond. I'll also see if I can give a talk at the University of
Washington Information School. It would be interesting to chat with
these graduate students, I think, to learn more about their experience.
Neat. Is there a date set?
Of course there are lots of other information schools out there;
perhaps none as focused as this one; but it would be interesting to
compare their curriculum with that of other information management
programs teach. I would love to think that this school is going to
be on the forefront of founding a true study of information itself
(generation, propagation, creativity, evolution, analysis &
verification), independent of computers and the unfortunately named
field of "information technology."
+sj+