Librarian: Don't use Wikipedia as source

[Rich Ackerman]

 From the Post-Standard:

Wednesday, August 25, 2004
AL FASOLDT
STAFF WRITER

In a column published a few weeks ago by my companion Dr. Gizmo, readers 
were urged to go to the Wikipedia Web site at www.wikipedia. org/wiki/Main 
Page , an online encyclopedia, for more information on computer history. 
The doctor and I had figured Wikipedia was a good independent source.

Not so, wrote a school librarian who read that article. Susan Stagnitta, 
of the Liverpool High School library, explained that Wikipedia is not what 
many casual Web surfers think it is.

full article:

http://www.syracuse.com/technology/poststandard/fasoldt/index.ssf?/base/news-0/1093338972139211.xml

I thought Gerry & others might find this interesting. It highlights the 
problem of authority in wikis, one reason that a wiki is probably not 
appropriate for scholarly communication.

Rich Ackerman