October 27, 2006
Students Flock to an Easy-to-Use Reference, but Professors Warn That It's No Sure Thing
Wikipedia's English-language version now has well over a million articles, and it boasts comprehensive entries on colloids and Keynesianism, on Pakistan, philately, and poker. The site is so easy to use, and so dominant in Google search results, that it has become something of a one-stop shop for knowledge-seeking college students.
And those students routinely take Wikipedia's contents as gospel, much to their professors' chagrin.
"I just read a paper about the relation between
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