Comment on They use to tell us we couldnt trust Wikipedia. Now we know. Wikipedia is the only website you can trust.

creed10@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• Duamerthrax@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The schools should have used wikipedia as an opportunity to teach media literacy. You don’t use wiki as your source, you go to the cited sources and investigate those. Use the cited sources a in your school reports.

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  • xx3rawr@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yet I see some teachers themselves using “Source: Google images” lmao

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• A2PKXG@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Technically you could cite a version in the version history. But Wikipedia isn’t about being right. It’s about trying to get It better

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• rchive@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  That might be one reason why some warned against using it, but I definitely had teachers in middle school and high school that explicitly said not to use it because it could be changed by anyone including people who could be wrong or lying.

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  • creed10@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    definitely not incorrect, for sure

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• zephyreks@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It’s also just often completely inaccurate. The standards it uses to cite works make them pretty much useless: any good information on Wikipedia is on there by accident.

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• PutangInaMo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  And the ability for folks to change it and provide inaccurate sources. It’s peer reviewed for the most part and academia wants officially peer reviewed sources.

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