Wikipedia Finally Becomes Credible {{Citation Needed}}

The Occidental Weekly
Wikipedia is the website ever-present in our Google search results. Unfortunately, it has never been considered a legitimate source of information when …

Try not to be cruel in your comments.

I've e-mailed her the summary of the Wikipedia senators vandalism study, asking her for comment.

Good luck with that — my comment was posted and then got deleted.

Jon

You gents do realize this looks like it was written by a journalism student?

She's got a Facebook.

Yeah, the byline say she's “an undeclared first year”. We were just passing along some information to help her in her studies.

Jon

Wait - Jon Awbrey watches Two and a Half Men? I feel somehow disillusioned, but I can't quite put my finger on how.

You need to stop feeling your disillusionment — you'll go blind.

Jon

I'm okay - I can't even put my finger on it (which is pretty frustrating in and of itself).

Wikipedia : Not The Devil

The Current
It's time to end the rampant misconceptions surrounding the popular collaboratively created encyclopedia known as Wikipedia, and whether it's a citable …


First, vandalism has been shown to be reverted virtually instantly, unnoticed vandalism being the exception. "Vandalism and inaccuracies are often reverted within a matter of minutes," write Aniket Kittur and Robert E. Kraut of Carnegie Melon [sic] University in their study ‘Harnessing the Wisdom of Crowds in Wikipedia: Quality through Coordination.' They reference several studies that have shown this effect. There are some widely circulated anecdotal cases of vandalism that went unchecked, but these are rare exceptions. The potential for vandalism is irrelevant because in most cases it is reverted quickly, if not instantly.


College Media Network is a member of the Access Network

Apparently you have to be "published in and verified by a peer reviewed scholarly journal" to gain any legitimacy with this author.

Unless you're Wikipedia.

Yeah, the hypocrisy is so automatic they don't even hear what they're saying anymore.

Jon

Wikipedia approval remains divided in academia

KSC The Equinox
Be it English or science, classes across the spectrum require papers and projects of all types, thus resulting in research. What differs from professor to professor though is the ability to cite Wikipedia. Some dub the online encyclopedia pure fiction …

Oh, Allie...

These “College Media Network / Access Network” chain-papers are obviously not independent, so I'm going to lump them all into one thread.

Jon

<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />[b]Wikipedia approval remains divided in academia[/b]
KSC The Equinox
Be it English or science, classes across the spectrum require papers and projects of all types, thus resulting in research. What differs from professor to professor though is the ability to cite Wikipedia. ...



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