Hi, I'm doing a paper for my math class strangely enough and I was wondering how you cite in a paper for the Wikipedia Encyclopedia. I don't want to plagiarize and I didn't know how to cite online encyclopedias. If you could contact me back ASAP that would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
speck912@comcast.net (speck912@comcast.net) [041217 22:06]:
Hi, I'm doing a paper for my math class strangely enough and I was wondering how you cite in a paper for the Wikipedia Encyclopedia. I don't want to plagiarize and I didn't know how to cite online encyclopedias. If you could contact me back ASAP that would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
Quote from it only as much as you would from any encyclopedia, and cite it as you would any web page. If you want to cite the particular version you are referring to, click on the link to "Page history" and that will give you a pile of links to each version by date and time.
- d.
--- David Gerard fun@thingy.apana.org.au wrote:
speck912@comcast.net (speck912@comcast.net) [041217 22:06]:
Hi, I'm doing a paper for my math class strangely enough and I was
wondering how you cite in a paper for the Wikipedia Encyclopedia. I don't want to plagiarize and I didn't know how to cite online encyclopedias. If you could contact me back ASAP that would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
Quote from it only as much as you would from any encyclopedia, and cite it as you would any web page. If you want to cite the particular version you are referring to, click on the link to "Page history" and that will give you a pile of links to each version by date and time.
See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citing_Wikipedia
-- Matt
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David Gerard wrote:
Quote from it only as much as you would from any encyclopedia, and cite it as you would any web page. If you want to cite the particular version you are referring to, click on the link to "Page history" and that will give you a pile of links to each version by date and time.
An old version can be referenced with &oldid=... Is there a way to find the 'oldid' for the current version, so that one can reference the version as it is now, with the guarantee that it will be the same in the future?
regards, Gerrit.
On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 15:06:55 +0100, Gerrit gerrit@nl.linux.org wrote:
An old version can be referenced with &oldid=... Is there a way to find the 'oldid' for the current version, so that one can reference the version as it is now, with the guarantee that it will be the same in the future?
Not yet. The current version of the software doesn't assign an 'old_id' for the current version (basically because there is a seperate store which contains the current version of every page, so there is no need for one). Hopefully, this will be addressed in an up-coming release.
See also http://bugzilla.wikipedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=268 and http://bugzilla.wikipedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=181 (the second one has some handy workarounds available with the new version 1.4, which is almost finished, and already running on some wikis).