Anthony G. Greenwald, a professor of psychology at the University of Washington who was watching the editing demonstration, said he has asked seven students in his \u201cImplicit and Unconscious Cognition\u201d course to work on Wikipedia articles as part of the coursework. \u201cThis is repair work,\u201d he said. \u201cThere is so much in Wikipedia that is inadequate.\u201d Or plain inaccurate, said Alan G. Kraut, the association\u2019s executive director.<\/p>\n
But getting academics to fix it is a tall order,[Harvard psychology professor Mahzarin R.] Banaji admitted. \u201cI know my colleagues won\u2019t really want to write Wikipedia articles. It just won\u2019t be seen as important, because it isn\u2019t going on their CV,\u201d she said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
So the solution is to have graduate students write or revise the Wikipedia entries.<\/p>\n
Well, that approach might work for Pagan studies grad students too. I think it is time to propose such a move.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Last weekend Cara Schulz wrote a piece on the trouble some Pagan writers were having with Wikipedia. It started when people noticed some Pagan-related entries, such as “Paganistan” being flagged for deletion. Much editorial chat ensued. Brendan Cathbad Myers, author of The Other Side of Virtue and other books, saw his entry flagged as insufficiently […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5,4],"class_list":["post-2697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-paganism","tag-scholarship"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-Hv","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1130,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1130","url_meta":{"origin":2697,"position":0},"title":"Wikipedia’s Gnostic Kerfuffle","author":"Chas S. 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