If wikimedia/wikipedia are correct find this:
I was born in small village of Donja Vrucica on poluotok Peljesac
Croatian cost which was invaded by Mussolini backed armed forces
in world war 2 village was rob and what could not be carry way it
was burn to ground show me that in history wikipedia/wikimedia
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> WIKIPEDIA is now politically correct to use as a reference resource
> http://whygive.wikimedia.org/2007/12/07/can-you-trust-wikipedia/
>
> 8th December 2007, ResearchBuzz notes:
> "OCLC Hooks Up With Wikipedia"
> . . . " search over a billion items in
> over 10,000 libraries around the world."
>
http://www.academic-genealogy.com/melvyluniversityofcaliforniagenealogyfamilyhistory.htm#research
> " Now the xISBN service has been hooked up
> with Wikipedia! That means you can enter a URL
> and have xISBN generate a list of related URLs,
> and then check those URLs against the ISBNs
> on Wikipedia."
> http://www.researchbuzz.org/wp/2007/12/08/oclc-hooks-up-with-wikipedia/
>
> November 2007, Amazon Kindle, an electronic
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Kindle
> book (e-book) service is launched in the United States
> by Amazon.com.
> The Official Kindle product page notes:
> http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000FI73MA/
> " Includes free wireless access to the planet's
> most exhaustive and up-to-date encyclopedia--
> Wikipedia.org."
>
> November 27, 2007, Inside Higher Education
> News adds, under . . . New Ways to Collaborate . . .
> "How does the university develop its academic enterprise?"
> . . . "And now that both Microsoft and Google offer tools that
> allow students to publish their work -- and edit it, in real time,
> with others -- the adoption of these Web services presents
> an op****tunity for universities to evolve their approaches in
> the classroom as well" . . . such as "posting term papers on
> Wikipedia to be peer-edited by classmates" . . .
> http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2007/11/27/email
>
> October 29, 2007, Inside Higher Education News
> suggests: "The ****ft to thinking about placing the term
> paper as a Wikipedia encyclopedia entry allows for
> another level of peer review," . . .
> http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2007/10/29/wikipedia
>
> August 27, 2007, the Taipei Times noted:
> Academics debate Wikipedia's value . . .
> . . .
> "For S.T. Huang . . . , associate professor of the
> National Pingtung University of Science and Technology,
> the online encyclopedia, with its use of the open-source
> software "Wiki," can be used to preserve "disappearing
> local knowledge." Huang and some local activists in
> southern Taiwan have been dedicated to the task of
> ac***ulating local knowledge for more than 10 years.
> He said that Wikipedia will help the team establish
> a local knowledge database for Taiwan that can be
> accessed by people all over the world."
> http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2007/08/14/2003374123
>
> Earlier reference:
> A Case Study on the Veracity of the "Wiki" concept . . .
> http://www.journalism.org/node/1676
>
> MULTI-SOURCE REFERENCE using WIKIPEDIA:
> Regional Genealogy and Local History Research:
> Local History and Genealogy ****tals to the World.
> http://www.academic-genealogy.com/regionalgenealogy.htm
> Regional genealogy and local history research includes:
> areas, countries, directories, ethnic group populations,
> organizations, local ancestry and local history studies.
>
> Respectfully yours,
>
> Tom Tinney, Sr.
> Who's Who in America,
> Millennium Edition [54th] through 2004
> Who's Who In Genealogy and Heraldry, [both editions]
> Family Genealogy & History Internet Education Directory
> http://www.academic-genealogy.com/
> Professional worldwide humanities and social sciences mega ****tal,
> connected directly to thousands of related sub-sets, with billions of
> primary or secondary database family history and genealogy records.
> It encomp***** all other key worldwide genealogy and surname sites.
>
> P.S. The "political correctness" phrase was a subtle statement
> by the writer that compared the rise of Wikipedia and its
> compilation by the "unwashed" educated m*****, with
> the rise of the American democratic process; the creation
> of the Constitution of the United States, wherein a society
> was ordered by former "unwashed" people, who had the
> audacity to believe that the common man could self-govern.
> UNWASHED: ignorant, plebeian
>
> WIKIPEDIA continues to be politically correct,
> as amended daily. The historical perspective
> or context is my mention of the creation of the
> Constitution of the United States, which was
> made for change, (through an amendment process),
> as required by future generations. "The United States
> Constitution is the oldest enduring written
> national Constitution." So Wikipedia, which
> is amended daily, should have a similar future.
> http://www.whitehouse.gov/kids/constitution/facts.html
> AMENDMENT: The act of changing for the better;
> improvement. A correction or alteration, as in a manuscript.
>
> POINT OF ISSUE: There appears a clear usage trend,
> indicating Wikipedia will over time, become central to
> higher education curriculum and teaching methods,
> in all language formats, worldwide.
>
> October 31, 2007 Wikipedia project is a class act
>
http://www.theage.com.au/news/web/wikipedia-project-is-a-class-act/2007/10/31/1193618940842.html
> . . .
> [University of New South Wales Associate Professor
> Andrew Collins has just completed a 10-week project
> with his advanced immunology class, requiring students
> to correct errors and fill the gaps in Wikipedia articles
> related to immunology. . . .
>
> Universities around the world, from the University
> of Hong Kong to MIT to Yale, have run similar
> projects for certain courses.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:School_and_university_projects
>
> The site, now ranked among the ten most-visited
> websites in the world, . . .]
>
> The British Library, "The world's knowledge",
> among other things, uses Wikipedia directly,
> at: The Web Archiving Programme.
> http://www.bl.uk/aboutus/stratpolprog/digi/webarch/
> "The Web Archiving Programme has been set up to
> put in place systems that enable the British Library
> to become the point of first resort for anyone who
> wants to access a comprehensive archive of material
> from the UK Web domain". I note on External links:
> Wikipedia: Web Crawler
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_crawler
>
> Peer Review: "The British Library is a founder member
> of the UK Web Archiving Consortium and chairs the
> steering committee. The archive contains over 2100
> different sites, over 1000 of which have been contributed
> by the team at the British Library."
>
> Wikipedia is used in Library of Congress Authorities.
> "Using Library of Congress Authorities, you can browse
> and view authority headings for Subject, Name, Title
> and Name/Title combinations; and download authority
> records in MARC format for use in a local library system."
> This service is offered free of charge.
> http://authorities.loc.gov/
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