Historians and Wikipedia

Wikipedia is coming into its own as a more useful sources for historians and the public. The primary concern remains, however, that students do not understand fully how to critically evaluate such sites. The same can be said of printed texts.

This Cliopatria post links to a compendium of sites. One mentioned that relates to what I'm teaching this fall is the examination and ASSESSMENT of Cold War entries. I'll have to think about how to incorporate this into my graduate seminar. It also might be worth having the graduate students who are also classroom teachers evaluate how they would use wikipedia entries on their more specialized topics with students.