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Is Wikipedia a reliable source |
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Wikipedia itself admits that it’s not 100 per cent accurate – because, except in certain cases where entry is restricted to prevent vandalism, “anyone with internet access can write and make changes to Wikipedia articles”. |
Useful article to show your pupils to encourage them to seek other sources as well |
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Blunders, hoaxes and public humiliation – Wikipedia’s ‘top’ 15
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Most of the time, Wikipedia does an amazing job of providing useful, correct and relevant information on almost any topic you can think of. But from time-to-time, errors slip into the system, vandals play practical jokes and some people get humiliated in front of the whole world. Here’s a list of some memorable Wikipedia blunders — some serious, some hilarious. |
Examples of inaccurate (often funny) editing of Wikipedia articles |
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10 Years of Wikipedia - Animated |
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Wikipedia turned ten years old this month. Like anything that lives for ten years, Wikipedia has changed over those years. The State of Wikipedia, an animated video narrated by Jimmy Wales, chronicles the development of Wikipedia over the last ten years.
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Wikipedia Explained |
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This video explores the tools, policies and people that seek to make Wikipedia articles factual and high quality.
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Wikipedia - using for internet research |
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Whilst its main selling point that 'anyone can edit almost every page' gives the opportunity for the site to contain the web's largest bank of knowledge, it does however therefore mean that a lot of information can be published with little or no moderation. Obviously the majority of facts contained on the website are going to be reliable - people wouldn't waste thousands of hours writing imaginary material, but there is always that tiny percentage of people out there that who are going to put erroneous stuff on it (be it through accidental misunderstanding of a topic or for purposeful malicious reasons).
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Simple English Wikipedia |
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This is the front page of the Simple English Wikipedia. Wikipedias are places where people work together to writeencyclopedias in different languages. We use Simple English words and grammar here. The Simple English Wikipedia is for everyone! That includes children and adults who are learning English. There are 84,023 articles on the Simple English Wikipedia. All of the pages are free to use. They have all been published under both the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License 3.0 and the GNU Free Documentation License. You can help here!You may change these pages and make new pages. Read the help pages and other good pages to learn how to write pages here. If you need help, you may ask questions at Simple talk. |
A simpler version of wikipedia with articles that are 'easier' to read |
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2008/9 Wikipedia for Schools |
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Welcome to this Wikipedia Selection. This 2008/9 Wikipedia DVD Selection is a free, hand-checked, non-commercial selection from Wikipedia, targeted around the UK National Curriculum and useful for much of the English speaking world. It has about 5500 articles (as much as can be fitted on a DVD with good size images) and is about the size of a twenty volume encyclopaedia(34,000 images and 20 million words) |
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