I personally love it and i don't care that its not always a hundred percent accurate it can be really helpfull for school work or just anything your interested in knowing about.
i love it, no one tends to change the pages on indepth subjects, there's no funny to be had by changing the chemical formular for cellulose or anything like that, if anything looks suspicious i google it
i love it, no one tends to change the pages on indepth subjects, there's no funny to be had by changing the chemical formular for cellulose or anything like that, if anything looks suspicious i google itmarkop2003
but the first reuslt from the Google Search is wikipedia.org! teh conspiracy!
Its a useful resource. Depending on the article, it can be a reliable source. If I were using it for university work, I'd follow up on the references, rather than just copying from Wikipedia itself.
My professors encourage us to use it for cursory information and to wet our feet, but if we use it in any academic publications they will kill us.Vandalvideo
i've lways thought it's good place to wet your feet too cause all the information is collated there for you with citations, it also gives you key technical terms which you can then use in a google or libary search
My professors encourage us to use it for cursory information and to wet our feet, but if we use it in any academic publications they will kill us.Vandalvideo
It's also fun to play the Wikipedia game; you know, take two random things - say Thundercats and an adze - and try to get from one page to the other using 7 or less Wikipedia links. It can be done with anything!
I like going through pages about various people and reading up on them. It gives you a quick enough excerpt where you learn some stuff, but it's not long enough to lose interest :D
Great way to waste time. I remember where I was reading an article on Nike shoes and 2 hours later and I got all the way to Freemasons through the related articles.
I has made basic reseach very easy. Instead of having to type in a broad thing on google and sift through the sorces on what you need, you can just go to wiki, read the article, and go to the sources that are linked to the info that you need.
I love it and it's accurate most of the time. I find it funny when I have a conversation with computer-illiterates and I tell them to look something up on wikipedia and they go "It'S wrong tho anyone can change it" as if they're the only ones who know anyone can edit wikipedia and as if they're special for knowing it. I want to go "OH REALLY?" but it's usually with people I don't know very well so I just awkardly go "Well, yeah...."
Well usually, if something is flatout wrong. It should get removed, the only problem is those reading the article between it being added and removed. Which shouldn't be too long.
Wikipedia is great for interesting info on many things. I can simply look up something I like on Wikipedia and then I start thinking of more and more things to look up. Before I know it, hours have passed.
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