{"id":541,"date":"2007-02-12T09:13:25","date_gmt":"2007-02-12T09:13:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/?p=541"},"modified":"2014-11-18T11:27:05","modified_gmt":"2014-11-18T03:27:05","slug":"wikipedia-banned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/learning\/wikipedia-banned-541","title":{"rendered":"Wikipedia - banned?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently there was some chatter on one of the teachers' listservs that I subscribe to about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wikipedia.org\/\">Wikipedia<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A lecturer said that her students are banned from using Wikipedia for their research because it has not been reviewed by an editor (like a \"real\" encyclopedia is).<\/p>\n<p>This got me thinking. Actually, Wikipedia <b>is<\/b> reviewed in a sense, because anyone who goes there and finds an article that is not quite right, can edit it.<\/p>\n<p>I will often go to Wikipedia as a starting point when reading up on something and I always find that it is valuable. I will use other sources, of course, just like you would if you were to start your research with a real encyclopedia.<\/p>\n<p>I don't think it is right to ban it, but it is important that students (and lecturers) know who writes it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"alt\"><a href=\"#respond\" id=\"comms\">Be the first to comment<\/a> below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some lecturers ban students from using Wikipedia for research. Is this the right way to go?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[127],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}