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Is Wikipedia a good source for college research? What do you think? |
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“Visitors do not need specialised qualifications to contribute, since their primary role is to write articles that cover existing knowledge; this means that people of all ages and cultural and social background can write Wikipedia articles.”---From About Wikipedia…the fact that they misspelled specialized might make you wonder what other mistakes are included.
“Actor-comedian Sinbad had the last laugh after his Wikipedia entry announced he was dead…” USA Today Online, March 16, 2007. What some librarians think: “They began by asking the crowd if they had used Wikipedia in the past week. More than 50 percent said yes. About one-third said they'd recommend it to library users, and about the same number said they preferred Wikipedia to a traditional encyclopedia.” Library Journal, 5/1/2007. Ken Jennings (Yes, the Intelligent Person Who Won the Most $$$ in the History of Jeopardy (U.S.) writes: Dairy Queen, which now owns Orange Julius, inadvertently used the hoax material [found on Wikipedia]as the basis for a 2007 ad campaign! The ad firm space150 created a viral video on Julius Freed’s life, using all the amazing-but-true facts from the Wikipedia article. (Again, to review: they were amazing, but not true. So space150 was half-right.) Said creative director Riley Kane:
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Comedian Stephen Colbert gives a humorous explanation of how Wikipedia works. “Together we can create a reality we all agree on---the reality we just agreed on.”
