{"id":302,"date":"2010-03-26T05:55:41","date_gmt":"2010-03-26T12:55:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/?p=302"},"modified":"2016-09-30T20:56:46","modified_gmt":"2016-10-01T03:56:46","slug":"wikipedia-as-bathroom-graffiti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/wikipedia-as-bathroom-graffiti","title":{"rendered":"Wikipedia as Bathroom Graffiti"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Using Wikipedia as an authoritative source is like using bathroom graffiti for relationship advice&#8211;it might sound confident, but after a while you&#8217;ve got to wonder who wrote it.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve struggled to explain to students why Wikipedia is not a reliable source, Mark Moran at FindingDulcinea has written <a href=\"http:\/\/www.findingdulcinea.com\/news\/education\/2010\/march\/The-Top-10-Reasons-Students-Cannot-Cite-or-Rely-on-Wikipedia.html\">The Top 10 Reasons Students Cannot Cite or Rely on Wikipedia<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 Among his points:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You can&#8217;t rely on something when you don&#8217;t know who wrote it.<\/li>\n<li>Sometimes vandals create malicious entries that go uncorrected for months.<\/li>\n<li>There is little diversity among editors.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I wish I would have had Moran&#8217;s article about four weeks ago when my eighth graders were deep into the research portion of their I-Search projects. I will certainly be using it next year.<\/p>\n<p>The list is a must-read for anyone teaching research skills at the junior high or high school level.\u00c2\u00a0 And don&#8217;t miss FindingDulcinea&#8217;s guide to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.findingdulcinea.com\/guides\/Education\/In-The-Classroom\/Wikipedia-In-The-Classroom.html\">Wikipedia in the Classroom<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using Wikipedia as an authoritative source is like using bathroom graffiti for relationship advice&#8211;it might sound confident, but after a while you&#8217;ve got to wonder who wrote it. If you&#8217;ve struggled to explain to&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[49],"tags":[96,95,94],"class_list":["post-302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research","tag-findingdulcinea","tag-mark-moran","tag-wikipedia"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pPveS-4S","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":305,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302\/revisions\/305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}