Mmm ... I wasn't going to buy into this one, but we met one of the
editors at the ASLA Conference in 2007. He had been editing Wikipedia
for 3 years. Guess what - he was a 17 Y.O. schoolboy. There have also
been a number of articles over the last few years about the quality of
the editors and the editing process.
Guess the major point we need to teach the kids here is that Wikipedia
is a resources and like any resource - print or electronic, we need to
verify the accuracy and authority of the source. Just because it is in
print or even on a govt site does not make it factually correct. We ned
to check the validity of the information and not rely on shortcut
methods. Using several sources by different authors and checking their
qualifications to make such statements is one way - using and
information specialist (aka Librarian type person) is another.
:)
BC
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At an NEH workshop last summer, I spoke with representatives of the
National Endowment for the Humanities about Wikipedia. They told me
their frustration was that only a small part of it may be edited at one
time, so it is never quite up to date. They tried to edit the page
about NEH so that it was current but were not permitted to edit enough
to make it so. I've used that example with my students as a reason why
not to use Wikipedia.
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