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Wikipedia has been the center of a much heated and critical debate in academia pertaining to the relevance, accuracy, and effectiveness of using information found online in academic research, especially in places where information is constantly being created, revised, and deleted by people of various backgrounds, ranging from experts to curious learners.
Wikipedia, like other encyclopedias, is intended to provide an overview of topics and indicate sources of more extensive and academic information. Many of the general rules of thumb for conducting research apply to Wikipedia, including:
We get some savvy people to give lectures about Wikipedia. Details of how Wikipedia works, how to Get Things Done, dealing with editor conflicts and related topics are the primary focus, but any helpful analysis of Wikipedia is welcomed. The place is #wikipedia-en-lectures, on irc.freenode.net and also our public chat on Skype. IRC and Skype ...
One of the greatest weaknesses of the public's use of Wikipedia in its research and information seeking, is that readers often don't understand how Wikipedia is made, how to use it within a research process, and other key critical thinking and digital research skills. Teaching Wikipedia readers how Wikipedia volunteers make decisions about the ...
If a Wikipedia article doesn't exist or you can't find an article that contains what you're looking for, you can ask a Wikipedia editor at our reference desk to research it for you. If you research the topic, you can add a reference and a summary of that source to the Wikipedia article, so that future Wikipedia readers can find that information.
This project, Wikidemia, provides a space for articles related to academic research about Wikipedia. Semi-active. Wikipedia:Wikipediology is a forgotten inactive version, it appears. Wikipedia:Academic studies of Wikipedia: An incomplete list of academic presentations and papers on Wikipedia. Wikipedia:User survey
For presentations in other languages, see the interlanguage links. Please add your presentation also to meta:Presentations , the international master list on Meta-Wiki. User:Jimbo Wales/BBC talk : An outline of the presentation Jimbo and Angela did in London (posted 2004)
For more information on article assessment, see Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Assessment FAQ A screencast describing the article quality assessment system in Wikipedia. Another screencast on article quality assessment.