Wikipedia will now have a new resource, the Internet Archive. The San Francisco-based non-profit will be taking digitized versions of books & matching them with corresponding Wikipedia citations, so long as those citations reference specific page numbers. Read on….
The Internet Archive Is Making Wikipedia More Reliable – Wired.com
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Wikipedia citations get way more legit with the addition of books – Mashable
Everyone knows that to legitimize anything you read on Wikipedia, the crowd-sourced online encyclopedia, you need to scroll to the bottom of the page and check out the references, notes, and citations (or click the little footnote link in the text).
The Internet Archive, known for its Wayback Machine, will now be a resource for book-based citations if that text exists within its library. Previously, only citations linking back to an online source were viewable. Now, some book references will be available online as well.
In a Tuesday post about “weaving books into the internet,” the San Francisco-based non-profit explained how it was taking digitized versions of books and matching them with corresponding Wikipedia citations, so long as those citations reference specific page numbers.
Link: https://mashable.com/article/wikipedia-internet-archive-book-citations/
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