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There’s a strange dejavuiness to this opinion piece in today’s Tennessean about how Wikipedia is not always the accurate source on a topic. It reads like the countless paint-by-numbers columns that have been previously written to beat this dead horse to obliteration. Back when this topic was actually news in Nashville, I posted the advice to “use Wikipedia as a gateway to facts, not a source of them.” For anyone who uses Wikipedia — or the Tennessean, for that matter — I stand by that advice.
Time posted: 1:49 pm on Sunday, February 18th, 2007 4 Responses to “Is it just me, or is the ‘Wikipedia isn’t the definitive truth story’ looping?”Post a Comment |
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February 18th, 2007 at 6:03 pm
Someone should add their stroke of brilliance to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennessean.
February 18th, 2007 at 6:27 pm
Actually, I think the Wikipedia entry is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nashville_Tennessean
February 19th, 2007 at 11:30 am
Whatever you think of Wikipedia’s accuracy (and I was encouraged by the skepticism shown by many of the people quoted in the article), it sure as hell isn’t a “global search engine”, as the Tennessean’s headline proclaims.
February 21st, 2007 at 2:52 pm
[...] Another “looping” story on the evils of Wikipedia appears in today’s New York Times, this one about the Middlebury University history department banning the use of Wikipedia in citations by students in papers or tests. With great insight, the faculty realized it would be impossible to ban students from using Wikipedia altogether. [...]