Whats your take on Wikipedia? Do you use it? Do you think its accurate?

Do you update articles?

Yeah...about that...

The wikipedia is fact! it helps me out a lot especially when I wanted found out more about ethel and julius rosenberg

I use Wikipedia for many reports but just to be safe I never completly trust it, I always backup their facts with facts from a few other sites.

You shall not interfer with the mighty Wikigods. They run Wikipedia, and are our great saviours. Praise the Wikigods. (I think it's a good project, but that's just because I'm an Open Source / GNU / Wiki freak).

Wikipedia is mostly correct, form my experience. I don't personally trust it for everything, because nothing, for me, can replace the knowledge of owning a hardcopy encyclopedia, or the feeling of looking through books by hand, but if I need something in a pinch Wikipedia is awesome. I'll Google anyhting that seems out of place.

My favorite Wiki.

I think Wikipedia mostly has all the facts. I actually found my church on Wikipedia...they had all the facts right about it. So...I pretty much think it's a good thing, and I've used it many times for my research projects in school. It's pretty helpful.

Wikipedia saved my life on multipul occasions while I was taking AP Euro

Wikipedia is awesome. Wikipedia is there anything you dont know?

I love wikipedia. I used it so much that I finally just put it as my homepage.There's a friggin article about everything!

There was one time I saw a headline changed from being about 2 nations fighting to being about a conflict between P. Diddy and Tupac, but they caught that pretty quick lol.

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Originally posted by iamastar:
I honestly don't ever use it because I don't write alot of papers. But, when I had to do a research paper for english last semester, we were told not to use it as a source because it's not always a reliable one.

Well thats on the user of the information... but at the same time, Wiki is a great place to get a general understanding of something, then you can fact check. It makes research easier.

I honestly don't ever use it because I don't write alot of papers. But, when I had to do a research paper for english last semester, we were told not to use it as a source because it's not always a reliable one.

I only use it when researching fairly big things. (Liked wars) And I've never noticed too much that sounds bogus.

I've actually created a few articles on Wikipedia. Nothing major, though.

I use WP a lot. I trust it because sources are required. You can't just come up with some speculation and expect it to stay without someone else coming along and asking for a source. Anything that's bogus is generally edited out or revised to fit the facts. They're good at staying neutral, too, which helps when trying to find information on controversial topics that are generally biased one way or another on other sites.

Overall, it's the best online reference you can find for free. You'd have to pay for anything better.

There is a study that on the scientific/mathematic parts of the site have only one more mistake per page then the Encyclopedia Britannia. I would say that's quite good.

A few bad examples have shaken our confidence in Wikipedia, and it's really unnecessarry. Matters of real importance are being debated, clarified and fact-checked constantly by the site members (just look at one of the talk pages). The only time I don't trust Wikipedia is when I'm looking up something like a lesser known band, and the history indicates the entire article was only written by one or two people.

Usually the truly bogus ones are caught by the administraton, the ones that can be a toss up usually have an argument that you can read through and interpret fact from fiction yourself.

I like it because I can use it to explain things to people in a simpler way when some of the stuff i do is too technical.

do you double check the facts when doing a report?

I love that site. It is amazing. I used it for every history project I had last year. I never ubdated the articles, though...

a healthy mix of fact and crap I would think