Edit, easy to collaborate sort of bare text and images software. Wiki is not the same as wikipedia, but they merged the two together, and it began in 2001 as a kind of side project of a more traditional encyclopedia. It was a drafting space for that more traditional encyclopedia. But it kind of took off to get a life of its own and very quickly amassed hundreds of thousands of articles. Steve so who writes and edits for wikipedia and how do you double check that the information is 100 accurate . Ryan as far as who writes wikipedia, anybody can write wikipedia. You can write wikipedia. I write wikipedia. Anybody who decides that they want to share in the compilation and sharing of human knowledge, how do you check it . One of the fundamental rules of wikipedia is that there is everything is verifiable, and so, anything that you read on wikipedia should have been written in another reliable source first, and then it was cited in wikipedia and summarized. If you look at a wikipedia articl
Wikipedia, anybody could write wikipedia. You could write wikipedia. I write wikipedia. Anybody who wants to share in the compilation and sharing of human knowledge. How do you check it . One of the fundamental rules of wikipedia is that everything is verifiable, and so anything that you read on wikipedia should have been written in an another reliable source first. And then it was cited in wikipedia and summarized. So if you look at a wikipedia article and you look all the way at the bottom, all those little footnotes, those are all sources, so you should in theory be able to verify anything you read on wikipedia by following those sources. And if youre the subject of one of those wikipedia biographies or articles and the information is blatantly false or wrong, how can you correct it . So its tricky. A lot of people would be tempted to go and edit their biography themselves, which is a little its a hairy business because wikipedia has a conflict of interest policy. So the idea you ca
Cspan2 with top Nonfiction Book authors every weekend. Book tv, television for serious readers. Good evening, everyone, welcome to the bookshop, we are happy you are here tonight to we are happy to have Megan Kate Nelson with us with her new book, the threecornered war, the union, confederacy and native people and the site for the west. This is an engrossing narrative account which shows how the civil war, the indian wars in western expansion are all interconnected, the 1860s were a time of National Conflict which involved not only the north and south but also the mark in west. Her primary Source Research involves letters and diaries, military records and oral histories and photographs and maps from that time and nelson write specifically about nine individuals who worked toward Self Determination in the fight for the region. Some of these people are fairly known to us like frontiersmen, and wanita who we get to know their stories lost to history until now. And nelson unearth their sto
Interconnected, the 1860s were a time of National Conflict which involved not only the north and south but also the mark in west. Her primary Source Research involves letters and diaries, military records and oral histories and photographs and maps from that time and nelson write specifically about nine individuals who worked toward Self Determination in the fight for the region. Some of these people are fairly known to us like frontiersmen, and wanita who we get to know their stories lost to history until now. And nelson unearth their stories to show the importance of actions even in the midst of a larger military conflict. The book earned a star review and Library Journal and indeed it is history that keeps the reader turning the pages. Megan kate nelson is a writer and historian living in lincoln, she has written about the civil war, u. S. Western history and American Culture for several publications including the new york times, the Washington Post and smithsonian magazine. She ear
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