Link to Stanford University News article, "Wikipedia, if it were run by academic experts, would look like this".
Excerpt: It's September, and as school resumes, so does the wrangling between students and teachers across the country over the reliability of Wikipedia and other Internet sources as fodder for footnotes in research papers.
The debate has been going on for years. When philosopher Larry Sanger left Wikipedia – the project he co-founded – he said its "anti-elitism" was the root of its shortcomings. He said that because pretty much anyone could write anything, expertise was mistrusted and those committed to mayhem or propaganda could too easily dominate the medium.
But he did recommend an online alternative: the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
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