On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 3:17 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
On 4 June 2012 13:57, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
AIUI, weekdays office hours are our peak access period, and Wikipedia generally isn't blocked in offices the way Facebook, etc. often are. This suggests it's good for *something* economically.
It's good for lowering the productivity of offices! I occasionally look things up on Wikipedia at work that are actually about my work, but usually it's to settle a debate that has nothing at all to do with work.
Maybe that's true for you, but I often look up work-relevant stuff in Wikipedia. Where it's important, I can follow references and look up other sources.
Also, think about the way doctors use it: it's a very useful aide-de-memoire for most doctors when it comes to stuff they don't use on a daily basis. They have the knowledge and skills to determine whether the information is correct, and don't rely on it for critical decisions, but if a doctor needs a remindor of which receptor is affected by the autoimmune system in myasthenia gravis, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myasthenia_gravis#Pathophysiology will help.