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Roy Rosenzweig: His scholarly article on Wikipedia is drawing readers to the online encyclopedia

Roy Rosenzweig's recent article in the Journal of American History, Can History be Open Source? Wikipedia and the Future of the Past, seems to be having a powerful effect in turning the tide of academic opinion. Several posters suggested the article to naysayers. Said one, "Rosenzweig convinced me of the importance of this entity, which I had been trying unsuccessfully to ignore."
Read entire article at Sage Ross at Wikipedia