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Comment on At 25, Wikipedia faces a double threat: the rise of AI and the decline of local media— Human visitors declined in 2025, while AI crawlers are on the rise

brucethemoose@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

We certainly did. We learned Chicago/APA style, types of sources, and how to make citations in reports.

And that Wikipedia is not appropriate as a source to cite.

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PhoenixDog@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

And that Wikipedia is not appropriate as a source to cite.

That’s why you use Wikipedia as means of sourcing the citations. You look up an article, learn about it through Wiki, then further educate yourself on the topic through the citations.

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- brucethemoose@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Exactly!
  
  Credible sourcing seems to be a lost art on the internet, though.
  
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