H@L0_F00 Posted September 1, 2009 Share Posted September 1, 2009 Wikipedia is implementing a system to color code the reliability of edits made to documents. Now I can tell my teachers to STFU about Wikipedia not being a "credible source." It's hardly ever my only reference in the first place. http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/08/wikitrust/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Netshroud Posted September 1, 2009 Share Posted September 1, 2009 Nice. Usually I just go the references at the bottom of the wikipedia article and take info from there :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manuel Posted September 1, 2009 Share Posted September 1, 2009 as Psychosis said, your best bet is to go to the sources listed at the bottom of a wikipedia page and draw your conclusions from that. Use wikipedia as one of the avenues to do research, but don't steal or quote from wikipedia directly. Even with their new system, colleges and schools will still refuse to accept its credibility in most cases. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KGONEPOSTL Posted September 1, 2009 Share Posted September 1, 2009 Wikipedia is implementing a system to color code the reliability of edits made to documents. Now I can tell my teachers to STFU about Wikipedia not being a "credible source." It's hardly ever my only reference in the first place. http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/08/wikitrust/ They fear what they don't understand THE INTERWEBS! I'm a realist, so I'm gonna go out on a limb here since most of my college teachers are old enough to have invented the printing press, if it's digital, they'll find something retarded to scrutizine about this. I've won debates countless times with teachers. It seems like they just don't know how wikipedia works at all, and it appears they are just afraid of MLB standards so much that they should check their granny panty's for poop streaks. </rant> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KGONEPOSTL Posted September 1, 2009 Share Posted September 1, 2009 as Psychosis said, your best bet is to go to the sources listed at the bottom of a wikipedia page and draw your conclusions from that. Use wikipedia as one of the avenues to do research, but don't steal or quote from wikipedia directly. Even with their new system, colleges and schools will still refuse to accept its credibility in most cases. And this is EXACTLY what I constantly bring up in the debates. I propose that cited resources and the wikipedia page is just a collective web site informational D-A-T-A-B-A-S-E If I can list enough sources for a reference, why does it matter if it came from google OR wikipedia? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Cooper Posted September 1, 2009 Share Posted September 1, 2009 The big problem I have with Wikipedia is that it ends up being self referencing. People go there and get information but don't distinguish between what is backed up with a reference and what isn't. They then publish this information in their own public reports/articles which someone later uses as a reference to back up what was originally in wikipedia. This isn't a good way to keep the information acurate, it would be far better in my opinion if any information without a reference wasn't publicly available on wikipedia. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted September 1, 2009 Share Posted September 1, 2009 Wikipedia is just like the The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. "...though it cannot hope to be useful or informative on all matters, it does make the reassuring claim that where it is inaccurate, it is at least definitively inaccurate. In cases of major discrepancy it was always reality that's got it wrong." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
antirem Posted September 2, 2009 Share Posted September 2, 2009 I dont see why there is so much hate towards the factual basis of Wikipedia... yes there can be holes but its fairly solid. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
h3%5kr3w Posted September 2, 2009 Share Posted September 2, 2009 Hell.. Ask any of my professors and they will tell you to go straight to wikipedia. Then again, unlike other professors, mine are evolved from the dark ages.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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