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Cultural Institutions & Wikipedia: A Mutually Beneficial Relationship Webcast (Library of Congress)

Cultural Institutions & Wikipedia: A Mutually Beneficial Relationship Webcast (Library of Congress)  This is good news. Acceptance of the Wikipedia as a serious and useful should be bolstered. And by the way, I found an objectionable phrase in the Wikipedia this morning and before a note reached the editors the phrase had been removed. Here is what the Library of Congress says about the video cast (or transcript download) TITLE: Cultural Institutions & Wikipedia: A Mutually Beneficial Relationship SPEAKER: Dominic McDevitt-Parks, Kristin Anderson EVENT DATE: 08/13/2012 FORMAT: Video + Captions RUNNING TIME: 87 minutes TRANSCRIPT: View Transcript (link will open in a new window) DESCRIPTION: Over the past few years, cultural institutions have formed partnerships with Wikipedia in order to increase their visibility on the web and connect with a vibrant community of online volunteers. As a purpose-driven, non-profit educational project, Wikipedi