| Bank Builds Knowledge with Wikipedia |
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| Thursday, 06 March 2008 | |
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A World Bank pilot project is helping build knowledge on infrastructure through Wikipedia. So far the project has produced 47 articles in English and 17 in Spanish, covering the water & sanitation and electricity sectors in Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) countries. “We saw Wikipedia as a way to overcome the shortcomings of other forms of knowledge management that are less interactive, less structured and have less reach and visibility,” said Manuel Schiffler, a senior economist working on the project. The articles received 31,000 hits in January. To view the article on water and sanitation in Latin America, click here. |