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Google will buy Wiki some day. Mark my words.
Posted on 3/29/08 at 9:47 am
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Posted on 3/29/08 at 10:59 am to Meauxjeaux
thanks for the insight
Posted on 3/29/08 at 12:42 pm to Meauxjeaux
My biggest complaint about Wiki is how atrocious the search functionality is.
Posted on 3/29/08 at 12:49 pm to Tiger JJ
it really is bad, my girl was trying to do some research on there and she ended up having to go to google
Posted on 3/29/08 at 1:50 pm to tygerfan70118
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my girl was trying to do some research on there
Wiki is one of the worst places to do "research". The content cannot be trusted enough. If you tried citing wiki on any sort of legit paper, you should be given a failing grade. I would only use the external links that some people provide in entries.
Posted on 3/29/08 at 2:51 pm to Meauxjeaux
what are they waiting for ??? wiki is very googleish
Posted on 3/29/08 at 8:22 pm to Meauxjeaux
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Google will buy Wiki some day
:OMG: :OMG:
Posted on 3/30/08 at 9:26 pm to Kige Ramsey
Wiki isn't a good "source" to have to research papers...I've had professors that wouldn't allow it
Posted on 3/30/08 at 9:46 pm to Meauxjeaux
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Google will buy Wiki some day. Mark my words.
Why? It's an open source, free public content project run by a non profit. Why would a non profit who believes that the primary value of wiki is being an open, publicly managed resource, be interested in selling to google? Also, If google grabbed it they'd probably have to keep it free rather than full of adwords (those open source types generally shun commercialism). If google couldn't sell ads on it, how does controlling wiki benefit them?
Posted on 3/30/08 at 11:20 pm to Tiger JJ
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My biggest complaint about Wiki is how atrocious the search functionality is.
use google. Add 'wiki' to the search term. Always the first entry.
Posted on 3/31/08 at 8:05 am to BayouBengal
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Wiki is one of the worst places to do "research". The content cannot be trusted enough. If you tried citing wiki on any sort of legit paper, you should be given a failing grade. I would only use the external links that some people provide in entries.
a good wiki article has cites that you can use, which is what you use a generic information set like that for anyway
for instance i can go to a treatise to find law, but it is weak solely to cite the treatise itself for a case it discusses (unless you want to quote the analysis of the author specifically).
wiki points you in the right direction. even if you don't have cites, you can google sections to find out where it came from
Posted on 3/31/08 at 1:28 pm to Meauxjeaux
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Google will buy Wiki some day. Mark my words.
I am not for sale!
Posted on 3/31/08 at 6:17 pm to WikiTiger
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WikiTiger
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I am not for sale!
Excellent position to begin negotiations from; Let's see what Google offers first ... and don't counter offer right away.
Posted on 3/31/08 at 8:42 pm to BayouBengal
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Wiki is one of the worst places to do "research". The content cannot be trusted enough. If you tried citing wiki on any sort of legit paper, you should be given a failing grade. I would only use the external links that some people provide in entries.
This is actually a myth. It's about as reliable as a store bought encyclopedia. No reference is perfect. But I'd check the bibliography section like you said.
Posted on 3/31/08 at 9:22 pm to Powerman
the bibliography is a great place to get further reading, as well as the external links section. only a moron would cite directly from wikipedia on a paper. find the material that is cited in the article itself, and cite that. it is very useful if a person has no background in the subject.
Posted on 4/1/08 at 1:30 am to tygerfan70118
Wiki is a good source to point you in the right direction, if nothing else. Using it as an authority or as your only source on a topic is skating on thin ice, though.
Posted on 9/2/09 at 6:40 pm to Theriot
yup. I use it all the time, I just don't cite to it.Posted on 9/2/09 at 6:45 pm to BayouBengal
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The content cannot be trusted enough.
+1
Posted on 9/2/09 at 8:13 pm to TigerinATL
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Why? It's an open source, free public content project run by a non profit. Why would a non profit who believes that the primary value of wiki is being an open, publicly managed resource, be interested in selling to google? Also, If google grabbed it they'd probably have to keep it free rather than full of adwords (those open source types generally shun commercialism). If google couldn't sell ads on it, how does controlling wiki benefit them?
This.
Posted on 9/2/09 at 8:33 pm to Powerman
I remember one time we had to do a SWOT analysis at work. My old textbooks were pretty terrible in their explanation of how to do this, and so was our corporate reference.
Well I'll be damned if Wikipedia doesn't have the best SWOT analysis explanation (by far) that I have ever seen.
For certain probability math concepts and equations, I have found Wikipedia to be equally useful. Now, I would not cite Wikipedia in a publication!
Well I'll be damned if Wikipedia doesn't have the best SWOT analysis explanation (by far) that I have ever seen.
For certain probability math concepts and equations, I have found Wikipedia to be equally useful. Now, I would not cite Wikipedia in a publication!
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