Nov
24
2006
The power of Wikipedia
Around the time I started work, and in particular attending presentations by colleagues, many such presentations would start with a slide like “Webster’s dictionary defines X as ….”, where X is the topic of the talk.
One of the events at the DERI research day I mentioned previously was a panel discussion on the topic of informatics. Three of the five panel members started their slides with quotes and definitions of informatics taken from Wikipedia. Looks like we’ve come full circle.