An even bigger problem is getting students to NOT use Wikipedia.  Even if it is clearly stated in the assignment "Do not use Wikpedia".  

And based on my experiences, that is true at all colleges.  Even well-known VA ones.  Four-year college students are worse than those at community colleges, based on my teaching experiences the past couple of years.  

Sigh.

A friend who is an expert on the Titanic keeps having to correct the incorrect information that people keep putting in Wikipedia.  

I agree with the earlier message that Wikipedia's main use is looking up information about people from pop culture (and knowning that even that information may be wrong...)

Terilee





Professor Terilee Edwards-Hewitt
Montgomery College, Rockville Campus



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Date:    Sat, 14 Apr 2007 00:21:01 -0400
From:    "Stephan A. Schwartz" <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: "Americans" and Wikipedia

I am active on three lists in three quite different disciplines, and  
every person, on every list thinks Wikipedia is garbage, based on  
their survey of it, in the areas where they have competence. That has  
certainly been my experience.  Like Henry I have corrected mistakes,  
only to go back and find them retro-"corrected" into error.  Often on  
the simplest, and most solid of facts.  Henry's comments were polite.

-- Stephan