not authorative but fundamental: "No, I can’t just lift stuff from there; all I can do with Wikipedia is gain an understanding of dozens of things I know nothing about."

Finally. Let's hope it's the first of many.

A complete history of the Wikipedia article on the Iraq War (the second one) in XII volumes, printed. We *so* need a semiotics of writing. "Four years later, we don't yet have the tools that would let people read Wikipedia articles in "a new way" but hopefully Bridle's very impressive experiment with this one article will spur efforts to develop new tools for reading online works which are constantly being changed and edited."

A consideration on a spectrum of authority from "good enough" to "cite it in the diss."

Brief teacherly article on creating and using a wikipedia-like set up in fyc.

A primer for marketing on Wikipedia: "Wikipedia is not the source of easy promotion and marketing that many novices believe it to be. It takes practice to avoid being reverted." Still, the advice is pretty good.

Displays Wikipedia articles in a mind map format.

v. chap 3 for bloggy media. notable for being a draft posted for comment and for its thesis: "Most creativity is collaborative. It combines different views, disciplines and insights in new ways. The opportunities for creative collaboration are expanding"

why wikipedia isn't a vanity press, and why peer-review is valued.

uses wikindex

"Wikipedia is an online community devoted not to last night’s party or to next season’s iPod but to a higher good. It is also no more immune to human nature than any other utopian project. Pettiness, idiocy, and vulgarity are regular features of the s

brief observations on wikipedia as a "first draft" of knowledge.

by JARON LANIER

using wikipedia as a model for learning: educators create the materials ("neutral" of course) projects, and cohorts of students learn from pursuing the projects.

Advice is not strictly for wiki but dominantly so.