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Written by Tricia Wood on 2025-01-22 at 21:42

As a professor, I have found it a fascinating journey to go from telling students "Don't use Wikipedia! It's not a place to do research," to telling students, "Start with Wikipedia! It's a good and reliable source, and an excellent example of collective knowledge-keeping."

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Written by Lianna (on Mastodon) on 2025-01-22 at 23:19

@Pkbwood I think the difference is whether you use Wikipedia as a source versus using Wikipedia as a starting point to find actual sources.

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Written by Patrick Vanhoucke on 2025-01-23 at 14:54

@Pkbwood @lianna Right! Or if you just want a brief (or sometimes quite lenghty) summary.

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