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Wikipedia survives while the rest of the internet breaks

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598 points leotravis10 | 1 comments | 04 Sep 25 15:30 UTC | HN request time: 0.235s | source
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jl6 ◴[05 Sep 25 07:04 UTC] No.45135750[source]▶
Wikipedia is fabulous. I wish educators would stop telling people that it’s not reliable, and start using it to teach media literacy - which, for wiki purposes, is essentially to read the talk page to see what viewpoints have been included and excluded and why.
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scandox ◴[05 Sep 25 07:19 UTC] No.45135842[source]▶
My daughter's teacher told her class that Wikipedia is unreliable because it's just made up by volunteers. So I asked her where they should find information and she said other sites on the internet that can't just be edited by anyone.

Blew my mind.

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1. SoftTalker ◴[05 Sep 25 13:57 UTC] No.45138663[source]▶
The thing about Wikipedia is that every claim is sourced. And those that aren't are usually noted with a "Citation Needed" disclaimer.

So even if Wikipeda isn't permitted as a direct source for students, it's a great place to find other sources for claims and facts about almost any topic. That's how I taught my kids to use it in school. It's a ready-made bibliography on almost anything.