Wikipedia: A Comprehensive Overview
Wikipedia is a multilingual, web-based, free-content encyclopedia project that allows collaborative editing by a community of volunteers. While Wikipedia has strengths such as timely coverage and wide-ranging topics, it also faces weaknesses like vandalism and bias. Research on Wikipedia emphasizes using it as a starting point for serious research rather than a definitive source.
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WIKIPEDIA Not your granddaddy s encyclopedia!
Wikipedia is a multilingual, web- based, free-content encyclopedia project --Wikipedia:About
Wiki = collaborative website Encyclopedia = a book containing a series of alphabetized articles providing general information on a wide range of topics What does this really mean???
Wikipedia is a community encyclopedia ANYONE can add information real or otherwise!!
Strengths of Wikipedia Web-based Large number of active writers and editors provides timely coverage Topics kept current Hyperlinking to related topics
Weaknesses of Wikipedia Any article, at any time, may be in the middle of a major edit or vandalized Incomplete May be biased No verification of information Many contributors do not cite their sources
RESEARCH on Wikipedia From Wikipedia: Article Quality in Wikipedia Keep in mind that an encyclopedia is intended to be a starting point for serious research, not an endpoint. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Researching_with_Wikipedia
RESEARCH on Wikipedia?? From The Decline of Wikipedia by Tom Simonite The volunteer workforce that built the project s flagship, the English-language Wikipedia and must defend it against vandalism, hoaxes, and manipulation has shrunk by more than a third since 2007 and is still shrinking. Those participants left seem incapable of fixing the flaws that keep Wikipedia from becoming a high-quality encyclopedia by any standard, including the project s own. Among the significant problems that aren t getting resolved is the site s skewed coverage: its entries on Pokemon are comprehensive, but its pages on female novelists or places in sub-Saharan Africa are sketchy. Authoritative entries remain elusive. Of the 1,000 articles that the project s own volunteers have tagged as forming the core of a good encyclopedia, most don t earn even Wikipedia s own middle ranking quality scores. Simonite, Tom. "Saving Wikipedia From Itself." MIT Technology Review. MIT Technology Review, 22 Oct. 2013. Web. 24 Oct. 2013.
Bottom Line-- It is YOUR responsibility to find out what the rules are for a website. It is NOT your teacher s or your parents responsibility. IGNORANCE is not a defense.
How to avoid PLAGARISM on Wikipedia
Find the FAQs page READ what they have to say about using their information CITING Wikipedia
Once you have found the information, you MUST give credit to the contributor. A civil war is a high-intensity conflict often involving regular armed forces, sustained, organized and large-scale. RESULTS: large numbers of casualties consumption of large resources Civil War." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. 9 November 2009, 10:55 UTC. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. 09 Nov. 2009. <http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Plagiarism&oldid=5139350>.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/Alfred_Hitchcock_NYWTS.jpg/180px-Alfred_Hitchcock_NYWTS.jpghttp://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/Alfred_Hitchcock_NYWTS.jpg/180px-Alfred_Hitchcock_NYWTS.jpg If using photos or images, you MUST look for the artist s name. Alfred Joseph Hitchcock Palumbo, Fred. "Alfred Joseph Hitchcock." Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. Web. 9 Nov 2009. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Alfred_Hitchcock_NYWTSm.jpg>.
WORKS CITED "Alfred Hitchcock." Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 21 April 2009. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.,. 22 April 2009 http://en.wikihttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_hitchcockpedia.org/ wiki/Wikipedia:About. "The Birds Original Poster." Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 21 April 2009. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.,. 25 Nov. 2007 http://en.wikihthttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/index.html?curid=14412 480tp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_hitchcockpedia.org/wiki/Wikipe dia:About. Research on Wikipeida." Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 19 March 2009. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.,. 22 April 2009 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Researching_with_Wikipedia "Wikipedia:About." Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 21 April 2009. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.,. 22 April 2009 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:About
