On 8/15/06, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 15/08/06, George Herbert <george.herbert(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Great
news.com commentary piece on WP, humorous
and serious at the same
time:
http://news.com.com/Teens+warning+on+the+gospel+of+Wikipedia/2010-1038_3-61…
"Of course, for students, Wikipedia is the
miracle cure for
procrastination (and there's science to back that up; a recent poll
showed that nine out of 10 doctors suggested Wikipedia as a cure to
putting homework off. The other 10 percent were too busy uploading
spurious entries to participate in the poll)."
Good. I feel like half my talking to the press is getting across that
we're fallible and we do our best, but it's a perpetual working draft
and this is a feature rather than a problem - and there's no
substitute for thinking.
- d.
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Scanning through the "talkback" from that article, I was somewhat amazed at
the several, seemingly genuine notes of thanks to the author from high
school students who hadn't realized the "limitations" of Wikipedia.
As much as I was irritated by Colbert's stunt, perhaps it had some
beneficial results if it has the effect of helping high school students
understand why using a single source, especially WIkipedia, is not
appropriate for serious research.
-Rich
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