Presentation on theme: "WIKIPEDIA Not your granddaddy’s encyclopedia!"— Presentation transcript
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WIKIPEDIA
Not your granddaddy’s encyclopedia!
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“Wikipedia is a multilingual, web-based, free-content encyclopedia project”
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Wikipedia:About
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Wiki
= collaborative website
What does this really mean???
Encyclopedia
= a book containing a series of alphabetized articles providing general information on a wide range of topics
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Wikipedia is a community encyclopedia
ANYONE
can add information – real or otherwise!!
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Strengths of Wikipedia
Web-based
Large number of active writers and editors provides timely coverage
Topics kept current
Hyperlinking
to related topics
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Weaknesses of Wikipedia
Any article, at any time, may be in the middle of a major edit or vandalized
Incomplete
May be biased
No verification of information
Many contributors do not cite their sources
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RESEARCH on Wikipedia
From Wikipedia: Article Quality in Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Researching_with_Wikipedia
“Keep in mind that an encyclopedia is intended to be a
starting point
for serious research, not an endpoint.”
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RESEARCH
on
Wikipedia??
From “The Decline of Wikipedia” by Tom
Simonite
“The
volunteer workforce that built the project’s flagship, the English-language Wikipedia—and must defend it against vandalism, hoaxes, and manipulation—has shrunk by more than a third since 2007 and is still shrinking. Those participants left seem incapable of fixing the flaws that keep Wikipedia from becoming a high-quality encyclopedia by any standard, including the project’s own. Among the significant problems that aren’t getting resolved is the site’s skewed coverage: its
entries on
Pokemon
… are
comprehensive, but its pages on female novelists or places in sub-Saharan Africa are sketchy. Authoritative entries remain elusive. Of the 1,000 articles that the project’s own volunteers have tagged as forming the core of a good encyclopedia, most don’t earn even Wikipedia’s own
middle ranking quality scores.”
Simonite
, Tom. "Saving Wikipedia From Itself."
MIT Technology Review
. MIT
Technology
Review, 22 Oct. 2013. Web. 24 Oct. 2013.
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Bottom Line--
It is
YOUR
responsibility to find out what the rules are for a website.
It is NOT your teacher’s or your parents’ responsibility.
IGNORANCE is not a defense.
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How to avoid
PLAGARISM
on Wikipedia
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Find the
FAQ’s
page
READ
what they have to say about using their information
CITING
Wikipedia
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Once you have found the information, you MUST give credit to the contributor.
“Civil War."
Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
. 9 November 2009, 10:55 UTC. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. 09 Nov. 2009. <http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Plagiarism&oldid=5139350>.
A civil war is a high-intensity conflict often involving regular armed forces, sustained, organized and large-scale.
RESULTS:
large numbers of casualties
consumption of large resources
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Alfred Joseph Hitchcock
If using photos or images, you MUST look for the
artist’s name.
Palumbo, Fred. "Alfred Joseph Hitchcock."
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
. Web. 9 Nov 2009. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Alfred_Hitchcock_NYWTSm.jpg>.
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"
Wikipedia:About
."
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
. 21 April 2009. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.,. 22 April 2009
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:About
WORKS CITED
“Research on
Wikipeida
."
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
. 19 March 2009. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.,. 22 April 2009
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Researching_with_Wikipedia
"Alfred Hitchcock."
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
. 21 April 2009. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.,. 22 April 2009
http://en.wikihttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_hitchcockpedia.org/
wiki/
Wikipedia:About
.
"The Birds Original Poster."
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
. 21 April 2009. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.,. 25 Nov. 2007
http://en.wikihthttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/index.html?curid=14412
480tp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_hitchcockpedia.org/wiki/
Wikipe
dia:About
.
