06 March 2007

Week 7-- Exercise #16

I just looked at Wikipedia in English and looked up random words. There are lots of information, but how accurate can they be when anyone can just edit them.
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Wikipedia is one of the most useful website ever, especially with AP US History last year. We were super tested on vocab or events, and it was sooo useful to have that website with a summarized version of everything. I remember hearing about the "problem" with Wikipedia in that anyone could submit info about the topic, so it basically had a lot of misinformation and stuff. What I found out was that Wikipedia could be easily be edited by both people who are extremely educated and people don't know anything, but there are other people who go through these entries to make sure everything is accurate. What's funny is that this website is EXACTLY what most teachers won't let us use as a resource for most research papers!

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