In The April 2 edition of Time, Jimmy Wales, co-founder of Wikipedia answers
questions about Wikipedia, and in response to a question about using
Wikipedia for school assignments says:
"I would agree with your teachers that that isn't the right way to use
Wikipedia. The site is a wonderful staring point for research. But it's only
a starting point because there is a chance that there's something wrong and
you should check your sources if you are wirting a paper."
We just ran off copies for all of our teachers who seem not to know or care
about the pitfalls of Wikipedia. I was happy to see that even the founder
admits to its limitations.
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Juliann T. Moskowitz
Library Media Specialist
Norwalk High School
Norwalk, CT 06851
juliann14@hotmail.com
Reading is a means of thinking with another person’s mind; it forces you to
stretch your own.--Charles Scribner, Jr.
A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, he is one
who is prematurely disappointed in the future—Sydney J Harris, journalist
(1917-1986)
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