Comments on: Wikipedia No Longer Citable at Middlebury College http://budtheteacher.com/blog/2007/01/28/wikipedia-no-longer-citable-at-middlebury-college/ Inquiry & Reflection for Better Learning Mon, 21 May 2012 14:53:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: AndrĂ© Kenji http://budtheteacher.com/blog/2007/01/28/wikipedia-no-longer-citable-at-middlebury-college/comment-page-1/#comment-862 AndrĂ© Kenji Mon, 19 Feb 2007 22:36:02 +0000 http://budtheteacher.com/blog/?p=465#comment-862 The problem of Wikipedia is that the articles are always changing. I think that is good CASUAL research(Or to know where you should begin to work), but for academic research is not reliable... The problem of Wikipedia is that the articles are always changing. I think that is good CASUAL research(Or to know where you should begin to work), but for academic research is not reliable…

]]> By: ricki http://budtheteacher.com/blog/2007/01/28/wikipedia-no-longer-citable-at-middlebury-college/comment-page-1/#comment-861 ricki Mon, 05 Feb 2007 17:39:10 +0000 http://budtheteacher.com/blog/?p=465#comment-861 Even though I tell students Wikipedia is "disallowed" (because of its accuracy issues in part, but mainly because COLLEGE STUDENTS SHOULD GO BEYOND SIMPLE ENCYCLOPEDIAS FOR RESEARCH), I still get people who cite it. And then who complain when I take points off their papers. Even though I tell students Wikipedia is “disallowed” (because of its accuracy issues in part, but mainly because COLLEGE STUDENTS SHOULD GO BEYOND SIMPLE ENCYCLOPEDIAS FOR RESEARCH), I still get people who cite it. And then who complain when I take points off their papers.

]]> By: Barbara Ganley http://budtheteacher.com/blog/2007/01/28/wikipedia-no-longer-citable-at-middlebury-college/comment-page-1/#comment-860 Barbara Ganley Mon, 29 Jan 2007 12:29:41 +0000 http://budtheteacher.com/blog/?p=465#comment-860 Bud, As I am on leave this winter/spring, I was away when the decision came out, but, yes, the history department has become quite concerned by the number of students citing wikipedia without verifying the accuracy of the information, which led to some problems with facts in papers and on tests. Here's an interview with the department head, from <a href="http://insidehighered.com/news/2007/01/26/wiki" rel="nofollow">Inside Higher Ed</a>, and coverage <a href="http://media.www.middleburycampus.com/media/storage/paper446/news/2007/01/24/News/Wikipedia.Distresses.History.Department-2670081.shtml?sourcedomain=www.middleburycampus.com&MIIHost=media.collegepublisher.com" rel="nofollow">from our student-run newspaper</a> (interesting comments, too). There are a couple of issues here, of course: whether college-level papers should rely on encyclopedias as anything more than conduits to citable sources and whether wikipedia is reliable enough as a source. Personally I like to use these kinds of moments as wonderfully teachable in my classes--using a range of wikipedia entries from accurate to inaccurate to teach information literacy. ~Barbara Bud,

As I am on leave this winter/spring, I was away when the decision came out, but, yes, the history department has become quite concerned by the number of students citing wikipedia without verifying the accuracy of the information, which led to some problems with facts in papers and on tests. Here’s an interview with the department head, from Inside Higher Ed, and coverage from our student-run newspaper (interesting comments, too).

There are a couple of issues here, of course: whether college-level papers should rely on encyclopedias as anything more than conduits to citable sources and whether wikipedia is reliable enough as a source. Personally I like to use these kinds of moments as wonderfully teachable in my classes–using a range of wikipedia entries from accurate to inaccurate to teach information literacy.

~Barbara

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