[WikiEN-l] News.com: Teen's warning on the gospel of Wikipedia

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"The name Wikipedia comes from the Latin root "pedia," meaning "book
of arcane facts" and the ancient German root "wiki," meaning
"potentially altered by any idiot with Internet access." Actually,
Wikipedia combines the words "encyclopedia" and "wiki," a type of
software that facilitates online editing."

I have to admit, it made me laugh quite a bit.

It's a great article on the whole, I'm very impressed. Probably the
best one I've seen about the site. It manages to be completely
balanced and ultimately favorable without ever sounding either
evangelistic or scaremongering. And it is also very well written,
downright funny at times. Go figure that it would take a college
undergrad to write the first entirely reasonable article on Wikipedia.

FF

On 8/15/06, George Herbert <george.herbert at gmail.com> wrote:
> Great news.com commentary piece on WP, humorous and serious at the same time:
>
> http://news.com.com/Teens+warning+on+the+gospel+of+Wikipedia/2010-1038_3-6104446.html?tag=fd_carsl
>
> >From the article:
> "Of course, for students, Wikipedia is the miracle cure for
> procrastination (and there's science to back that up; a recent poll
> showed that nine out of 10 doctors suggested Wikipedia as a cure to
> putting homework off. The other 10 percent were too busy uploading
> spurious entries to participate in the poll)."
>
>
> --
> -george william herbert
> george.herbert at gmail.com
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