On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 3:17 PM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 4 June 2012 13:57, David Gerard
<dgerard(a)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.
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