If the inestimable FSP gets annoyed with it, then I feel I'm in good company (passim).
Seriously, what is wrong with these people? Do they actually believe they're right? Why do they keep 'uncorrecting' things, and — most importantly — how do we know which articles are affected? After all, you don't go to an encyclopædia to discover stuff you already know.
I do like this idea:
Ideally, my students would be able to look at a flawed Wikipedia entry on a topic we have discussed in the course, and see the errors.
It's tempting to deliberately direct students to dodgy entries and see if they cotton on.
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I guess it could be looked at as "let's see if you can think critically and evaluate the source"?
I seriously don't understand it either. And if nothing else makes me very weiry of people who only use wiki as a source ...
Posted by: chall | March 19, 2008 03:57 AM