2009/10/10 Anthony <[email protected]>: > On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 7:41 PM, Samuel Klein <[email protected]> wrote:
>> In my experience, high-school teachers were 90/10 anti Wikipedia 3 >> years ago, and are slightly in favor of it today. This sort of thing >> would be a fascinating survey to run year after year. > I don't know. My evidence is all anecdotal, but the vast majority of > what I hear from high school teachers about Wikipedia is playfully > derogatory. Not that they're against Wikipedia, any more than they're > against Twitter or MySpace, but that they don't take it as a serious > source of information. "I read it on Wikipedia" is taken as about > equivalent to "I read it on the Internet". Which is, of course, entirely true. My consistent line for press calls is: We're useful but we're not "reliable" as such, so always always go to the references. If there aren't any, that tells you something too. - d. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
