Young, R. J. (2006, June 12). Wikipedia founder discourages academic use of his creation. The Chronicle of Higher Education. Retrieved from http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/wikipedia-founder-discourages-academic-use-of-his-creation/2305 on April 27, 2011.
Wikipedia is a free online encyclopedia and underwrote by many peer around the world. Mr. Wale, Wikipedia’s founder discourages college’s students from using Wikipedia for their research project. Mr. Wale said about 10 students send him email every week to complain that Wikipedia gets them into trouble and ask him for help. He talks to himself “For God’s sake, you’re in college; don’t cite the Wikipedia.” However, he said he had no regret for this situation. Professors could tell the students not to cite from Wikipedia as primary source. It is good, but it has it limitation. In addition, he said if a student writes a paper abut history. The student gets some idea from Wikipedia. Anyhow, the student should use the history book.
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