{"id":380,"date":"2005-01-07T08:28:16","date_gmt":"2005-01-07T13:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cherrycoated.com\/wordpress\/?p=380"},"modified":"2005-01-07T08:28:16","modified_gmt":"2005-01-07T13:28:16","slug":"comment-on-wikipedia-and-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/about-the-internet-and-the-web\/comment-on-wikipedia-and-research","title":{"rendered":"Comment on wikipedia and research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Academia and Wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/archives\/2005\/01\/04\/academia_and_wikipedia.html\">apophenia: Academia and Wikipedia<\/a> states an opinion about using articles in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Main_Page\">Wikipedia<\/a> as citations in research papers.  The author makes a good point: an entry form Wikipedia is often only form one source, and has not been vetted. There fore, it&#8217;s not appropriate as a citation. He appears to be  in favor of the project (Wikipedia), but cautions on its use &#8220;I don&#8217;t believe that the goal should be &#8216;acceptance&#8217; so much as recognition of what Wikipedia is and what it is not. It will *never* be an encyclopedia, but it will contain extensive knowledge that is quite valuable for different purposes. If the fuss dies down, i&#8217;d be exceptionally worried because it would mean that we&#8217;ve lost the ability to discuss the quality of information.&#8221;  The entry also  includes several useful comments.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>apophenia: Academia and Wikipedia states an opinion about using articles in Wikipedia as citations in research papers. The author makes a good point: an entry form Wikipedia is often only form one source, and has not been vetted. There fore, it&#8217;s not appropriate as a citation. He appears to be in favor of the project [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-the-internet-and-the-web"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}