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1. How can Wikipedia maintain and grow its ability to harness the crowdsourcing of its “Wikipedians” to maintain high quality (and quickly updated) content? If Wikipedia can demonstrate effectively the potency of innovation in a competitive weapon it will simultaneously create and destroy value. Firms must be able to innovate while also fending off competitor’s imitation attempts. A successful strategy requires both an effective offense and a hard to crack defense. The reason for Wikipedia’s success is because it did just that when Jimmy Wales launched Wikipedia the free online Multilanguage encyclopedia. Wikipedia moved away from Britannic and Microsoft’s propriety business models to an open source model powered by user generated content…

I have heard of the encyclopedia, but I have never actually seen it and I was unaware that the encyclopedia had an online website. After my observation at Bangor High School, I decided to look more closely to Britannica and I was pleasantly surprised how well the encyclopedia was set up. Britannica has some similarities to Wikipedia, but it seems to be better set up and more reliable. I have always used Wikipedia with my research papers and such, but I now believe that I will start using…

Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia, is becoming more popular every day (Polk, Johnston, Evers, 2015, p.92). It can give a wealth of information easily to anyone who wishes to learn about a topic. However, concerns have risen about its use in research for schools. In the article “Wikipedia Use in Research: Perceptions in Secondary Schools” by Tracy Polk of Worcester Preparatory School, Melissa Johnston of the University of Alabama, and Stephanie Evers of the University of South Alabama,…

7 October 2011 Effects on Nurses Working Long Hours Patients in a hospital and/or healthcare facilities have to be cared for all day and all night, everyday of the week by nurses. The usual way to fulfill this need is to divide up the day into three 8-hour shifts. Different shifts have been put into place to help improve nurse satisfaction, decrease the nursing shortage and save the hospital money. The 24-hour day is made up of two 12-hour shifts; 12 hours in the day and 12 hours at night.…

(Encyclopedia Dramatica 2016) corresponding to the social roles that they play in the online community, it is also of note that these roles are not mutually exclusive as these are descriptions of behavior rather than prescriptive bounds for behavior the person is expected to uphold. Newfags are new users of 4chan, they are the adolescents of 4chan, they will inevitably do not understand the common language and may easily become confused by the ritual that is posting on the site, they may not…

The Encyclopedia of Leadership, published in 2004, is a compilation of articles, essays, and studies that encompass the numerous leadership approaches and techniques created over time. This resource about the study of leadership is a valuable item because it holds a various amount of information that can be used to learn more about the topic. In order to utilize this material effectively, it is helpful to know how to navigate around the encyclopedia. An effective way to do this is to observe how…

All the information is supported by evidence, and the citations of those resources are provided. The information is completed by the writers and editors of the publisher. The authors are unknown, however they work for the New World Encyclopedia. The New World Encyclopedia is an organization who rewrites and verifies the information from a Wikipedia page. There is a license which allows the organization to do that. The source even has a list of citations for themselves in various formats, to…

Landmark Text: Gert, B. (2001). genetic engineering. In L. C. Becker, & C. B. Becker (Eds.), Encyclopedia of ethics (2nd ed.). London, UK: Routledge. Retrieved from https://login.proxy117.nclive.org/login?url=https://search.credoreference.com/content/entry/routethics/genetic_engineering/0?institutionId=7681 Bernard Gert is an American philosopher with a Ph.D. in philosophy and an educator. To add, Gert has been a contributor to writing several books, one being the Encyclopedia of Ethics (2001).…

Total war is a military conflict in which nations mobilize all available resources in order to destroy another nation's ability to engage in war. (New World Encyclopedia) Total war has been practiced for centuries, but outright total warfare was first demonstrated in the nineteenth century and flourished with conflicts in the twentieth century. (New World Encyclopedia) When one side of a conflict participates in total war, they dedicate not only their military to victory, but the civilian…

Peyton Cardoza Shingara English- Period 5 21 February 2016 Works Cited "Battle of Agincourt | European History." Encyclopedia Britannica Online. Encyclopedia Britannica, 8 Jan. 2016. Web. 21 Feb. 2016. . In this article, published by the respected Encyclopedia Britannica, The Battle of Agincourt is presented in a factual manner that doesn’t seem to contain much bias or prejudice. The article has no specific author, however, the organization has been a credible informative tool used…