[WEB4LIB] Librarian: Don't use Wikipedia as source

[Bess Moffitt]

That article might be very really interesting, however I was sorry to find
another site, syracuse.com, that wants to know my zip code, well maybe, but
my year of birth and sex, just to read an article.

I don't care what anyone says about their privacy policies, I prefer not
giving out more information that I have to.

Just my opinion.

Bess
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                      "Rich Ackerman"                                                                                      
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 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










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