Wikipedia a possible credible source?

According to the folks at Harvard, it could be.

 

An interesting article by Jacob Kastrenakes:

Harvard wants to hire a Wikipedia editor to be its 'Wikipedian in Residence'

 

“Have a love for academia and editing Wikipedia? Harvard may have a job for you: one of the Ivy League university's libraries is hiring an experienced Wikipedia editor to write and improve articles and to upload some of its own archives into the public domain on Wikimedia. The job posting, first spotted by Gizmodo, is for a "Wikipedian in Residence," a type of liaison between an organization and Wikipedia's community that the encyclopedia's parent, Wikimedia, has been encouraging libraries and other institutions to establish for several years. Institutions that have participated so far include the Ford Presidential Library, the US National Archives, and the Smithsonian Institution Archives, among many others…”

 

Read the rest of the article here.