Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2007-04-09/In the news

US librarians see opportunities in Wikipedia

The Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) met for its 13th National Conference in Baltimore on March 29 to April 1. A session on Wikipedia was led by Dan Ream, head of education & outreach services at the

by Simon Winchester used as an example. Some held that Wikipedia offered them and their students new opportunities to learn critical thinking.

It also emerged that University of Washington's decision to actively link Wikipedia entries with links to its previously underused collections of digitized photographs [1] had resulted in usage skyrocketing and 235 Wikipedia entries now include an image sourced from them. (See some at Category:Images from the University of Washington Libraries Digital Collections.)

• Unsigned (April 6, 2007). "Wikipedia a Pariah? Not Really, Say Campus Interviewees". LibraryJournal.com. Archived from the original on September 30, 2007. Retrieved 2007-04-08.

Everything else wiki

Sporadic media reports have featured a new wiki site yet to launch which will give

, will be powered by MediaWiki, the same software which powers Wikipedia, but will be specially adapted to anonymise contributions. The Wikimedia Foundation is not involved in this project.

Commentators have cast doubts on the site’s ability to guarantee anonymity and its ability to stop itself being swamped with spam and disinformation.

• Muncaster, Phil (March 22, 2007). "Web 2.0 sites could encourage data leaks". IT Week. Retrieved 2007-04-08.

• Thompson, Bill (March 13, 2007). "Who stands to gain from Wikileaks?". BBC. Retrieved 2007-04-04.