Comments on: Six unorthodox ways to use Wikipedia

By: Martin Poulter

Martin Poulter — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 13:06:27 +0000

In reply to Totte.

Not a spoil-sport at all, Totte: you’re right that we need to show best practice. I mistakenly thought the image was linked to the original. The captioning system in WordPress isn’t standard HTML so it confused me a bit. Thanks for the feedback,

By: Totte

Totte — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 17:11:58 +0000

Not to be a spoil sport but since the top image is hosted locally(why not just link it to http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pedia-still-5.jpg as the one below) you should be extra careful to make sure it follows the license which it doesn’t (unless you’ve gotten an exemption). If the Wiki blog isn’t careful then how can we expect others to be it?

By: Erin

Erin — Sun, 05 Jun 2011 14:24:42 +0000

Aah, the delight of editing and being an admin on Wikipedia!!!

By: Mike Peel

Mike Peel — Sun, 05 Jun 2011 11:33:18 +0000

In reply to Elitre.

That would be CC-BY-SA; we should probably make that clear…

By: Elitre

Elitre — Sun, 05 Jun 2011 07:19:39 +0000

(My friends, which license is this blog released under? 🙂 )

By: Martin Poulter

Martin Poulter — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 12:43:28 +0000

Wow, I really like ConceptLinkage. I was thinking of what articles to include in a book, and it allowed me to quickly navigate through connected articles to find ones related to my theme.

By: Martin Poulter

Martin Poulter — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 10:30:13 +0000

Welcome, Terry, and thanks for your comment. I agree totally about the need for academic case studies, and this is something that we’re working on. Yes, I should have pointed out that users who want Wikipedia’s (or related projects’) pages as audio rather than text can use Text To Speech software or one of the online text-to-mp3 services. It’s not quite the same as a human-spoken version, but it makes millions of articles accessible, rather than just thousands. ConceptLinkage is new to me: I’ll go and try it out.

By: Terry McAndrew

Terry McAndrew — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 09:33:04 +0000

This neatly summarises new approaches to exploiting the power of Wikipedia. It would be useful to have a collection of novel applications of Wikipedia in Academia as case studies available from wikipedia itself. If only Academia could spend more time adding value and quality to Wikipedia instead of competing with it ;-).
I would also suggest the ConceptLinkage project to visualise relationships within Wikipedia – http://www.conceptlinkage.org/clink/ . This can be very useful to prompt further investigation and discover scope of a topic.
Other 3rd party tools we have encountered in http://www.jisctechdis.ac.uk useful to present WikiPedia content include ones to convert content into audio like Balabolka, Instapaper for mobile convenience, and Xerte for creating accessible RLOs.