Wikipedia And Academia

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Marc Meola[Edit][Delete]: Wikipedia And Academia, ACRLog [Edit][Delete] October 30, 2006

[link: Hits] So I guess there was a discussion about Wikipedia at the Chronicle, captured in this comment. Marc Meola responds, For the folks who say all sources have errors, that's true but it's impractical to ask people to be critical of and to fact check everything." It's this sort of thinking that leads people to trust "authoritative sources" and to then be led down the garden path. More...