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From: Amir E. Aharoni
Sent: Thursday, 03 May, 2012 04:58
To: Research into Wikimedia content and communities
Subject: Re: [Wiki-research-l] long in tooth: ignoring recent scholarship
2012/5/3 Richard Jensen <rjen...@uic.edu>:
Looking at a spinoff Shakespeare article: [[Shakespeare's plays]]. It's
peak
activity year was 2007. A dozen people made 10 or more edits. It has 26
citations and no bibliography. There are no scholarly journals. Half the
citations are over 40 years old. Only one book was published after 2007.
That profile strongly suggests editors who are unfamiliar with current
scholarship.
I sense low-hanging fruit here. What academic wouldn't want his paper
to be cited more? Wikipedia is not an academic source, but it's a
hugely popular one. A correctly-done campaign to get academics and
their students to cite recently published papers will benefit
everybody.
Happily the article on [[WIlliam Shakespeare's Style]] is MUCH more
up-to-date. ~~~~
... Which shows that a lot of is very intermittent and haphazard, but
often in a good way.
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Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי
http://aharoni.wordpress.com
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I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore
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