Through I am sure most of us are aware of this after looking at the Footnotes, I think this very IT-like initiative from ASA deserves a special mention here: "ASA is calling on its members to support the Association's mission to deploy the power of Wikipedia to represent the discipline of sociology as fully and as accurately as possible. In addition, we seek to promote the free teaching of sociology worldwide. Read more <http://www.asanet.org/about/wiki_Initiative.cfm>." In anticipation of this, I've recently redesigned the WikiProject Sociology at Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Sociology aiming to make it more user friendly. The old WikiProject site was less so, I think: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:WikiProject_Sociology&oldid=454354679 If anybody would like to make any suggestions on how to make the WikiProject page more friendly, let me know. As this is a wiki, please note that you can easily fix any typos and such yourself :) If you would like to email me back with any suggestions, consider posting them publicly on WikiProject discussion page itself (this is how Wikipedia works). The best articles, article news and alerts and the new article feed tools can be of particular interest, as they all provide relative up to date, dynamic data on various aspects of sociology on Wikipedia. On the trivia side, the most popular sociology articles on Wikipedia may raise some eyebrows: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Sociology/Popular_pages If one would like to help improve sociology content on Wikipedia, and/or teach with it, join the ASA initiative AND the WikiProject (the latter is done by signing the participant list on the WikiProject page). If anybody has any questions about the Wikipedia side of the project, please let me know, and I'll be happy to provide any assistance. -- Piotr Konieczny PhD Candidate Dept of Sociology Uni of Pittsburgh http://pittsburgh.academia.edu/PiotrKonieczny/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Piotrus