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The reliability of Wikipedia as an information source.
    #18830709 - 09/11/13 11:53 PM (10 years, 4 months ago)

I have a friend who will not accept ANY Wikipedia citation as a valid source of information, completely disregarding the advances in quality control and editing over the past several years.  He appears to have been convinced by the following articles (and the included final report), though.  Who knows... some of you might find this informative as well.

Please don't give me any grief about expecting stoners to read this shit.  I don't.  I am fully aware that there are some very smart, clearheaded people who frequent these boards.  This is for them.  If you don't want to read it, click the back button.


'Nature' study (published 2005)

'Journal of Clinical Oncology' study (published 2011)

Oxford study (published 2012)


and here is the link to the full report of the Oxford study mentioned in the final article.

Wikipedia reliability study PDF


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Re: The reliability of Wikipedia as an information source. [Re: Schmendrick] * 1
    #18830752 - 09/12/13 12:03 AM (10 years, 4 months ago)

Wikipedia is reliable as long as you check out the sources listed within the entry. Wikipedia itself is not a source.


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Re: The reliability of Wikipedia as an information source. [Re: muistrue]
    #18830763 - 09/12/13 12:05 AM (10 years, 4 months ago)

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muistrue said:
Wikipedia is reliable as long as you check out the sources listed within the entry. Wikipedia itself is not a source.




:whathesaid:


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Re: The reliability of Wikipedia as an information source. [Re: muistrue]
    #18830769 - 09/12/13 12:07 AM (10 years, 4 months ago)

Quote:

muistrue said:
Wikipedia is reliable as long as you check out the sources listed within the entry. Wikipedia itself is not a source.




Agreed.


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Re: The reliability of Wikipedia as an information source. [Re: Schmendrick]
    #18830810 - 09/12/13 12:21 AM (10 years, 4 months ago)

Wikipedia's fun and all but for serious academic use I would try to avoid it entirely.


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Re: The reliability of Wikipedia as an information source. [Re: robbyberto] * 1
    #18830819 - 09/12/13 12:23 AM (10 years, 4 months ago)

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robbyberto said:
Wikipedia's fun and all but for serious academic use I would try to avoid it entirely.





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Re: The reliability of Wikipedia as an information source. [Re: robbyberto]
    #18830854 - 09/12/13 12:37 AM (10 years, 4 months ago)

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robbyberto said:
Wikipedia's fun and all but for serious academic use I would try to avoid it entirely.




As muistrue said, you should never cite the contents of a Wikipedia article itself as an actual relevant source of information until you have scrolled to the bottom and verified the source of the information for yourself.

Really, Wikipedia does provide a very useful academic service though:  It makes it VERY easy to locate sources which are relevant to the topic at hand.  You search the site for the article you are interested in, and then just scroll down to the sources and take it from there.  That way you aren't relying on someone elses interpretation of the source material.


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Re: The reliability of Wikipedia as an information source. [Re: Masked] * 1
    #18830859 - 09/12/13 12:41 AM (10 years, 4 months ago)

wrong thread


Edited by Magicman69 (09/12/13 12:42 AM)


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Re: The reliability of Wikipedia as an information source. [Re: Masked]
    #18830865 - 09/12/13 12:43 AM (10 years, 4 months ago)

Lets go


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Re: The reliability of Wikipedia as an information source. [Re: Schmendrick]
    #18830895 - 09/12/13 12:58 AM (10 years, 4 months ago)

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Schmendrick said:
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robbyberto said:
Wikipedia's fun and all but for serious academic use I would try to avoid it entirely.




As muistrue said, you should never cite the contents of a Wikipedia article itself as an actual relevant source of information until you have scrolled to the bottom and verified the source of the information for yourself.

Really, Wikipedia does provide a very useful academic service though:  It makes it VERY easy to locate sources which are relevant to the topic at hand.  You search the site for the article you are interested in, and then just scroll down to the sources and take it from there.  That way you aren't relying on someone elses interpretation of the source material.




I suppose that I agree. It does have a spectacular amount of weird information, too.


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Re: The reliability of Wikipedia as an information source. [Re: robbyberto]
    #18831090 - 09/12/13 03:07 AM (10 years, 4 months ago)

i didn't read the reliability studies, but its common sense wikipedia would be much more reliable than textbooks.  I dunno where else you'd look.


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