Surprise! Most students use Wikipedia at some point during their research on a paper or project, and they usually do so early on in the process. Online peer-reviewed journal First Monday recently ...
Here are some of the pros and cons to college students using Wikipedia in their research and assignments, from two research and instruction librarians at the University of Dayton. What comes to mind ...
Since its introduction in 2001, Wikipedia has grown to host more than 19 million articles with 82,000 contributors in more than 270 languages. Wikipedia has 400 million unique viewers each month as of ...
Hey teachers: Leave those kids alone! Or at least stop telling them not to use Wikipedia in their homework assignments, since you're all doing it, too. The Pew Research Center's Internet and American ...
The Wikimedia Foundation said it has inked agreements with Microsoft, Google, Amazon and Meta to use its content for training ...
Wikipedia has always been the face of a free and open internet. But now, the company has taken a significant step towards ...
Michael Gorman, a former president of the American Library Association, wrote some years ago that “a professor who encourages the use of Wikipedia is the intellectual equivalent of a dietitian who ...
If you are sitting in front of a Linux system, you can always pop open a browser and query topics of interest on Wikipedia. On the other hand, if you’re logged on through a terminal emulator like ...
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