I love Wikipedia.

[Turkish]

Damn it, its the best website ever. I bookmark articles that I read completely and I just checked to see that I have 4311 :thumbsup: My latest topic of interest is the Japanese empire, culture, etc. Maybe I will donate some money in the future.

 

[Tylanner]

i do love it also

 

[JDrake]

wikipedia is my homepage

 

[Tylanner]

Originally posted by: joedrake
wikipedia is my homepage

i love wik but google personalize homepage is too sexy

 

[tommywishbone]

Then why don't you marry it?

 

[Aves]

Originally posted by: joedrake
wikipedia is my homepage

I'd set it as mine but it can be slow to load at times.

I do have this link in my favorites bar:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Randompage

 

[preslove]

It's the best general encyclopedia, ever.

 

[JDrake]

Originally posted by: preslove
It's the best encyclopedia, ever.

fixed

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: Aves
I'd set it as mine but it can be slow to load at times.

:thumbsup: I usually use google to search wikipedia (by just adding wikipedia to the search terms, none of that "site:" jazz). Wikipedia is often slooooooow. I should donate some money.

 

[Babbles]

Originally posted by: joedrake

Originally posted by: preslove
It's the best encyclopedia, ever.

fixed

Except for those inaccuracies they have been nailed with recently.

 

[mugs]

My other complaint about wikipedia is that the wikinerds all race to put any and all news events in any relevant article, and it ends up cluttering articles with current event items that don't really belong.

 

[Pepsei]

the popularity of wikipedia has skyrocketed recently too.

 

[preslove]

Originally posted by: Babbles

Originally posted by: joedrake

Originally posted by: preslove
It's the best encyclopedia, ever.

fixed

Except for those inaccuracies they have been nailed with recently.

All large encyclopedias have errors. The great thing about wiki is that it can be edited without a new edition.

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: Babbles
Except for those inaccuracies they have been nailed with recently.

It's a user-edited encyclopedia. There's always going to be someone who wants to be a jerk, and there's always going to be people who disagree on the contents. They have methods for resolving situations like that. I wouldn't use it as a source for a school paper (I wouldn't use any encyclopedia for that), but as far as websites go I think it's one of the most reliable sites on the Internet. And it's fun to read if you enjoy learning about history and whatnot.

 

[Eeezee]

I love wikipedia as well, but just make sure you take what you read on there with a grain of salt. Most of the users who submit things know just as much as the average reader. Sometimes the information can be wrong, or correct information can be edited to make it wrong.

I wouldn't use Wikipedia as a citation, but it's mostly good information.

 

[Cooler]

Originally posted by: Eeezee
I love wikipedia

QFT
I wish I could use it as citation in papers as well.

 

[yosuke188]

Wiki FTW!

 

[Goosemaster]

IIRC They have like 40milion -60 hits a day

 

[cressida]

Enjoy it now before it becomes bloated like most good stuff

 

[Aves]

Originally posted by: Babbles

Originally posted by: joedrake

Originally posted by: preslove
It's the best encyclopedia, ever.

fixed

Except for those inaccuracies they have been nailed with recently.

Jimmy Wales' Wikipedia comes close to Britannica in terms of the accuracy of its science entries, a Nature investigation finds.

 

[Lonyo]

Originally posted by: Babbles

Originally posted by: joedrake

Originally posted by: preslove
It's the best encyclopedia, ever.

fixed

Except for those inaccuracies they have been nailed with recently.

I was reading one article.
Someone had "humerously" edited it by adding to the end of one paragraph something like "and you smell".
So I edited it out.

 

[Lonyo]

Originally posted by: Cooler

Originally posted by: Eeezee
I love wikipedia

QFT
I wish I could use it as citation in papers as well.

Hit up Wikipedia.
Find some random fact.
Hit up http://books.google.com
Search for aforementioned random fact.
Cite in paper.

 

[MaxDSP]

yep, lotta good stuff on there