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Let Wikipedia Write Your Next Paper

5 October 2005 44 views No Comment

According to News.com, Esquire writer AJ Jacobs put a badly written and error ridden article on Wikipedia and let the Wikipedian community have at it. Within days, the article had received hundreds of edits, was cleaned up, proof read and fact checked. The resuling entry is here.

(I hope my students don’t see this)

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