Using Wikipedia: Crash Course Navigating Digital Information #5
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Not defending natural news, but just saying that if you want to use wikipedia to disprove others, then you need to use wikipedia to see if any other sources you use have lost their credibility in some sense.
Date: 2022-04-04
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ErraticArtist
I have an extended family member tell me to trust Wikipedia (while trying to convince me to join an MLM no less) because it is peer-reviewed and I just wanted to keel over. I don't deny that Wiki has good stuff on it and it and leads to great sources, its most definitely has gotten better since its inception, but I'm not sure I'd go quite as far to say it's a great, peer reviewed system.
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I have an extended family member tell me to trust Wikipedia (while trying to convince me to join an MLM no less) because it is peer-reviewed and I just wanted to keel over. I don't deny that Wiki has good stuff on it and it and leads to great sources, its most definitely has gotten better since its inception, but I'm not sure I'd go quite as far to say it's a great, peer reviewed system.
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crash_course
As an educator, I'm really pleased with the awesome content of this video but also with how slowly John speaks in comparison to earlier crashcourse series. I've tried to use crashcourse world history in class a couple times only to have my students not be able to follow the rapid spoken information whatsoever.
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As an educator, I'm really pleased with the awesome content of this video but also with how slowly John speaks in comparison to earlier crashcourse series. I've tried to use crashcourse world history in class a couple times only to have my students not be able to follow the rapid spoken information whatsoever.
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Onlyjob
Nice introduction, thanks. Peer review is what makes Wikipedia work. Community contributed content is a powerful concept.
However standards of neutrality are not well established like when -vaccine controversies- page was renamed as -vaccine hesitancy-.
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Nice introduction, thanks. Peer review is what makes Wikipedia work. Community contributed content is a powerful concept.
However standards of neutrality are not well established like when -vaccine controversies- page was renamed as -vaccine hesitancy-.
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Bruce
For all its defects, I trust wikipedia and think it is the least unreliable source. cos can you find another encyclopedia with all references? maybe a book, but a book doesn't contain all information, which wiki does!
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For all its defects, I trust wikipedia and think it is the least unreliable source. cos can you find another encyclopedia with all references? maybe a book, but a book doesn't contain all information, which wiki does!
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QinYuping
you capitalists never know how good wikipedia is, last year wikipedia was totally blocked by commi gov. and the only pedia we can ues is baidupedia which bad to a degree that beyond description. so cherish wiki
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you capitalists never know how good wikipedia is, last year wikipedia was totally blocked by commi gov. and the only pedia we can ues is baidupedia which bad to a degree that beyond description. so cherish wiki
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EmmaThePineapple
Teens at school: -smokes in the bathroom-
Teachers: Ehh
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Teen: -breaks a window-
Teacher: Ehh
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Teen: -uses Wikipedia for a source on their report-
Teachers: HELL NAW
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Teens at school: -smokes in the bathroom-
Teachers: Ehh
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Teen: -breaks a window-
Teacher: Ehh
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Teen: -uses Wikipedia for a source on their report-
Teachers: HELL NAW
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Denise
Every research paper I wrote in college started with wikipedia. It's a great source of basic information for most topics and I still use it when I want a quick overview of a subject.
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Every research paper I wrote in college started with wikipedia. It's a great source of basic information for most topics and I still use it when I want a quick overview of a subject.
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None
I didn't know there _was_ a Wikipedia page on -toilet paper orientation-. This is insane. There is clearly no alternative to -over- installation, so this entire page is moot. -
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I didn't know there _was_ a Wikipedia page on -toilet paper orientation-. This is insane. There is clearly no alternative to -over- installation, so this entire page is moot. -
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Tessa
One of my college friends, who also was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship, is an internationally recognized expert on star-nosed moles. I once saw him on a NOVA documentary.
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One of my college friends, who also was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship, is an internationally recognized expert on star-nosed moles. I once saw him on a NOVA documentary.
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