2009/10/10 Anthony wikimail@inbox.org:
On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 7:41 PM, Samuel Klein meta.sj@gmail.com wrote:
In my experience, high-school teachers were 90/10 anti Wikipedia 3 years ago, and are slightly in favor of it today. This sort of thing would be a fascinating survey to run year after year.
I don't know. My evidence is all anecdotal, but the vast majority of what I hear from high school teachers about Wikipedia is playfully derogatory. Not that they're against Wikipedia, any more than they're against Twitter or MySpace, but that they don't take it as a serious source of information. "I read it on Wikipedia" is taken as about equivalent to "I read it on the Internet".
Which is, of course, entirely true. My consistent line for press calls is: We're useful but we're not "reliable" as such, so always always go to the references. If there aren't any, that tells you something too.
- d.