Academics Continue Flirting With a Former Foe: Wikipedia

By Avi Wolfman-Arent. Google “straight turkey,” and you will find references to the Dardanelles (a Turkish strait), Wild Turkey brand whiskey, and a recent soccer match between the United States and, you guessed it, Turkey.
You will not encounter the defunct Los Angeles-based art magazine by the same name—at least not yet.
Next weekend East of Borneo, an art magazine founded and funded by the California Institute of the Arts, will host the fourth in a series of Wikipedia edit-a-thons intended to enhance Los Angeles’s art history by gathering local art enthusiasts and teaching them how to create and edit Wikipedia articles. More...