do you take Wiki seriously?

Posted: Wed Aug 05, 2009 10:47 am

Leetfreak wrote:

If they quote everything with citations, And it is not just made up such as
(Drug czar of the evil pink cactus-monkeys)
Sure.
Its great and can be taken seriously.
I mean, seriously. who wouldnt take it seriously. I am being serious.

Glad your taking it seriously, seriously! I will check out the evil pink cactus monkeys Wink

Posted: Wed Aug 05, 2009 10:52 am

I lost all my respect for wiki when I discovered corporate "spies" were going in and removing and changing negative information about products and corporate behaviors. So far as I know nothing has been done to stifle this bit of insanity either.

Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2009 5:31 pm

Wiki is great, it has helped me a lot in obtaining reliable information.

Posted: Fri Sep 04, 2009 4:15 am

Its fairly reliable.This is the first time I am hearing that people have entered false information but most of the information i get is true so I'm not sure about that.I think it is a very good source of information.

Posted: Fri Sep 04, 2009 7:51 am

wiki has everything. i use it for everything. even at school when the instructions are " DO NOT SOURCE WIKIPEDIA" you better believe its number 1,2,5, and 8 on my bibliography. the rest being sites i made up cause i really used wikipedia Smile

Posted: Mon Oct 19, 2009 7:50 am

It really helped me when I was a student Wink

But now I don't use it at all... Confused

Posted: Mon Oct 19, 2009 7:56 am

oh well if you really want to learn something you can always go to http://academicearth.org/

I find raw information will generally only take you so far anyhow. I suppose to an extent that's why students are sometimes told not to use wiki, it has a habit of disconnecting some things that are related, and sometimes making related things that really aren't.

That's my experience at least.

Then again for a great deal of things I actually think the old master/apprentice, method was much more effective.

So I'm probably just crazy.

Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2012 1:03 pm

Wiki is the best

Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2012 1:11 pm

katie1984 wrote:

Wiki is the best

If you must resurrect a 6 year old thread, at least make it constructive. Rolling Eyes