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History hacks is a site that is dedicated to finding, exploring, reviewing (playing with and ranting about) the uses of technology for history, American Studies, Museums, literature, and digital humanities learning and research.

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Saturday, January 12th, 2008

Museums and Web 2.0: Trust and Tolerance

Jimmy Wales, one of the founders of Wikipedia, has said that the two main principles of Wikipedia are trust and tolerance. Trust that users will upload accurate and appropriate content, and that the few who do not will be corrected by their fellow users. Tolerance of the fact that users not only define their own [...]