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Why you can't cite Wikipedia in my class
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Volume 50 ,  Issue 9  (September 2007) table of contents
ACM's plan to go online first
COLUMN: Viewpoint table of contents
Pages: 15 - 17  
Year of Publication: 2007
ISSN:0001-0782
Author
Neil L. Waters  Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT
Publisher
ACM  New York, NY, USA
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ABSTRACT

The online encyclopedia's method of adding information risks conflating facts with popular opinion.


REFERENCES

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1
Rosenzweig, R. Can history be open source? Journal of American History 93, 1 (June 2006), 117--146.
 
2
Tucker, J. (editor and translator). Ogyu Sorai's Philosophical Masterworks. Association for Asian Studies and University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu, 2006, 12--13, 48--51; while Ogyu sought to redefine the sources of Tokugawa legitimacy, his purpose was clearly to strengthen the authority of the Tokugawa shogunate.

CITED BY  3
Bongwon Suh , Ed H. Chi , Aniket Kittur , Bryan A. Pendleton, Lifting the veil: improving accountability and social transparency in Wikipedia with wikidashboard, Proceeding of the twenty-sixth annual SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems, April 05-10, 2008, Florence, Italy
Katsumi Tanaka, Web search and information credibility analysis: bridging the gap between Web1.0 and Web2.0, Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Ubiquitous Information Management and Communication, January 15-16, 2009, Suwon, Korea
Adele Santana , Donna J. Wood, Transparency and social responsibility issues for Wikipedia, Ethics and Information Technology, v.11 n.2, p.133-144, June 2009

INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  K. Computing Milieux
  K.3 COMPUTERS AND EDUCATION
      K.3.0 General

Additional Classification:
  K. Computing Milieux
  K.3 COMPUTERS AND EDUCATION
      K.3.1 Computer Uses in Education
  K.4 COMPUTERS AND SOCIETY
      K.4.0 General
      K.4.1 Public Policy Issues
  K.7 THE COMPUTING PROFESSION
      K.7.4 Professional Ethics


REVIEW

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The author recounts an incident where several students provided the same incorrect information on an examination, each using similar language. The source of the incorrect information was quickly traced to Wikipedia (http://www.wikipedia.org/). As   more...


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