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Test for 2018 Digital journalism

Nobody knows the troubles I've seen.

I hope to make contributions to pages on digital humanities, ejournalism, ICT and related issues.

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John Angus Blaikie is an English and Creative Writing professor at Brandon University. Born in Wallace Nova Scotia in 1948 he is the author of a number of literary works.

I teach an e-journalism class and I have been introducing basic principles and practices of journalism. We had a class discussion about common euphemisms used in journalism. One that I like is So and So "appeared tired and emotional" for drunk. I added this euphemism to a list of common euphemisms but it was reverted for lack of a footnote. I restored the revert and included a footnote. So we will see if the reverted reversion sticks.

I've been coming across a number of articles about the epistemology of Wikipedia. Most recently a Masters thesis by Steven Jankowski.

Jankowski, S. (2013). Wikipedia and encylopaedism: A genre analysis of epistemological values (Masters). University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON.

This led me to search Wikipedia on the topic and found that no page exists although many related pages discuss various aspects including one seminal work by Larry Sanger on the Wikidata project. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_epistemology_of_Wikipedia

A possibly related topic is social epistemology of which Wikipedia appears to be an example.

I looked for other articles on the topic and began organizing a bibliography.

Fallis, D. (2008). Toward an Epistemology of Wikipedia (SSRN Scholarly Paper No. ID 1263781). Rochester, NY: Social Science Research Network. Retrieved from http://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=1263781

I looked for other articles and found

Jankowski, S. (2013). Wikipedia and encylopaedism: A genre analysis of epistemological values (Masters). University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON.

Veletsianos, G., & Kimmons, R. (2012). Networked Participatory Scholarship: Emergent techno-cultural pressures toward open and digital scholarship in online networks. Computers & Education, 58(2), 766–774. doi:10.1016/j.compedu.2011.10.001

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David Bawden, (2009) "The end of expertise?", Journal of Documentation, Vol. 65 Issue: 2, pp. -

Epistemology is a major branch of philosophy and is concerned with the nature and scope of knowledge. The epistemology of Wikipedia has been a subject of interest from the earliest days of its existence.

Early analysis related the epistemology of Wikipedia to social epistemology. Other realms of epistemological research; epistemology of testimony, and epistemic value theory have been addressed with reference to Wikipedia (Fallis, 2008, p.6). More recent analysis suggests that the epistemology of Wikipedia derives from the combined epistemic values of wikis and of encyclopedias.

Jankowski( 2013) cites Ruth and Houghton (2009) who define the epistemic values of wikis as: Jankowski suggests that determination of the epistemic values of encyclopedias is more problematic requiring genre analysis. This analysis revealed that encyclopedias value:
 * self-identiifcation
 * collaboration
 * co-construction
 * cooperation
 * trust in the community
 * constructionism
 * utility
 * systematic organization
 * authority
 * trust in experts

Fallis( 2008) previously identified the specific epistemic virtues of Wikipedia as
 * consistency.
 * power
 * speed
 * fecundity

* Fallis, D. (2008). Toward an Epistemology of Wikipedia. Rochester, NY: Social Science Research Network. Retrieved from http://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=1263781

* Jankowski, S. (2013). Wikipedia and encylopaedism: A genre analysis of epistemological values (Masters). University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON.

* Ruth, A., & Houghton, L. (2009). The wiki way of learning. Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 25(2), 135–152.

Another test of Zotero drag and drop with the Wiklipedia template tool Testing out the Zotero cite to Wikipedia function