Poll: Wikipedia?
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if wikipedia is wrong then i want it to be reclassed so that maybe it becomes more right or maybe move somewhere where it's right
Although when wiki first came out it was a joke, like a 10 page article about when bill gates died, it has come around. Still i dont use it for any school work more for just references on games and movies
I dont like the people who hang out on wikipedias they tend to be complete morons and obviously have even less of a life than your average nerd such as myself. but the site is just AWESOME, probably the second if not first most useful site on the internet.
People like to badmouth Wikipedia. However, I read a study from the journal, "Nature" that shows that Wikipedia is comparably accurate to Encyclopedia Britannica. Nothing is %100 accurate, makeing Wikipedia a perfect starting point. Yes, you should have additional sources, but...shouldn't you always? Besides, outside of academic uses, Wikipedia is a great reference for random tidbits of information, plus it makes for a great reminder for material you've learned, but need to be refreshed on. I did it for my Statistics work in college all the time. I forgot what some kind of test was. I stuck it into Wikipedia, looked at the article, and went, "Oh yeah, now I remember". Took me seconds at my computer, not minutes searching a book. Wikipedia is great if you remember that its a reference, not the divinely inspired word of God. Treat it with the same skepticism you give any one book.
I have no problem with it. I have used it countless times and I've never come across any completely outragious claims.
As long as it isn't your only source of information Wikipedia is a good way to find facts. Most articles act as a summary of a subject, which is very useful for fact finding.
It's a good tool. It's (by design) not a primary resource, you can't use it in your projects, but as a modern day Hitchhiker's guide, you could do a lot worse.
At the very least, it's an excellent source aggregator.
At the very least, it's an excellent source aggregator.
Its pretty good, I use for random info searching, I use it to learn the secrets of the Universe, such Supermassive black-holes, Quazars, Learning that the biggest Sun that we have found so far is about 5 times the size of our entire solar system. Really puts things into perspective.
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i only go on it when im bored and even then its only for random stuff like band info most of which prolly isnt true lol