Wikipedia for school?
By anna728
@anna728 (1499)
United States
July 7, 2009 2:31am CST
Would you use Wikipedia for school? Would you use as a source? If you would, would you admit it by citing it as a source? Would your school mind if you did?
5 responses
@ehsanji (503)
• Pakistan
13 Sep 09
Definitely! Who wouldn't! It has almost everything one needs as for as information is concerned. The good thing is, it's for free! You don't have to pay online like we do for Encarta's software. My Cellphone's default homepage is wikipedia.
@anna728 (1499)
• United States
14 Sep 09
Yeah it definitely has a huge range of info and free is definitely good. I used to get free access to Encarta back when I had dial-up and MSN was my provider. But, no more. The only thing with Wikipedia is that sometimes the stuff on there is wrong, which is why I am hesitant to use it for school, at least for than to get the general idea of something. I use it for personal things a lot, though.
@Sleepingcap (149)
• Estonia
24 Aug 09
Wikipedia is by now a very solid source of information and most of the teachers know that by now. Internet has become much more than some mambo-jambo voodoo stuff that no-one really knows anything about.
I have referred to wikipedia in many of my works at school and nowadays people see it as a newer and more up-to-date version of an encyclopedia.
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@madmillionaire (598)
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14 Jul 09
Personally I would not use wikipedia for school. Quite often some of the information contained in wikipedia is incorrect and not very helpful. There are far better sites you can use for research like encyclopedia.com and msn's encarta.
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@nomarets99 (106)
• Philippines
7 Aug 09
yes I did, I use wikipedia as a source of information in my assignments and projects, but not as often as my classmates because they also use wikipedia and it ended to all of us having the similar answer in our work. So I've decided to find more sources and I'll try to combine the words or simply I won't pick the answer explained in wikipedia, then I'll present my work, that way, I am the only one who have a different answer while they are all the same.
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