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Wikipedia Redux
Comparison of Wikipedia to Subscription Resources, or where
should you tell students to look
Joy PileAlec McLaneNEMLA Spring 2008Tufts UniversityMarch 17, 2008
Bizet’s Carmen
New Grove
Death dates
Herbert Callhoff
Dora Pejacevic
Dub (Music)
Dub (Wikipedia article)
So what to tell the students?
• Evaluate resources
• When using Wikipedia – fact check it with other sources
• Compare all resources – search broadly
What should we ask of commercial databases?
• Links – both internal ones and external ones to bibliographic resources and sound files
• More frequent updates, especially for artist/composer death dates.
• All articles should be signed – demonstrating the responsibility for scholarship.
World music – Biography
World music – Biography
Musical instruments Qin (Guqin) – Garland
Qin (Guqin) – Garland – cont.
Qin (Guqin) – Garland – cont.
Qin (Guqin) – Wikipedia
Musical genres - “Dub” – Garland (in Popular Music in the English-, French-, and
Creole-Speaking Caribbean)
Pansori - Garland
Pansori – Garland (cont.)
Pansori – Garland (cont.)
Pansori – Garland (cont.)
Pansori – Wikipedia
Wikipedia• Strong focus on a mainstream
popular culture framework
• Web 2.0 features enhance learning and research
• BUT: Treat with scholarly skepticism