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Found this on wiki have changed it back to what it should be but thought it was funny.

'Melbourne Football Club, nicknamed The Losers, is an Australian rules football club playing in the Australian Netball League, based in Melbourne, Victoria.'

 
Found this on wiki have changed it back to what it should be but thought it was funny.

'Melbourne Football Club, nicknamed The Losers, is an Australian rules football club playing in the Australian Netball League, based in Melbourne, Victoria.'

"The [individual] who wrote that will rue the day"!!!!

 
Found this on wiki have changed it back to what it should be but thought it was funny.

'Melbourne Football Club, nicknamed The Losers, is an Australian rules football club playing in the Australian Netball League, based in Melbourne, Victoria.'

TBH I don't think it's funny.

"The F***** who wrote that will rue the day"!!!!

WYL - understand the frustration, but is that necessary? I suggest you edit it before....

Can you just edit things on wiki if or whenever you feel like it? If so, how could you ever use it as a reliable source for anything? I hope kids don't use it for school projects etc. Sounds ridiculous!


Can you just edit things on wiki if or whenever you feel like it? If so, how could you ever use it as a reliable source for anything? I hope kids don't use it for school projects etc. Sounds ridiculous!

You can just edit it whenever you feel like it, that's what a wiki is, by definition. Wikipedia is fairly heavily moderated, and articles 'stub' articles (i.e. incomplete articles, articles with no citations etc) are marked as such. Articles that contain nonsense are either usually edited by more well-meaning contributors, or by Wikipedia staff pretty quickly.

You'd never treat Wikipedia as gospel because you never know who's contributed what, however the concept in my mind works pretty well, and there is an absolute wealth of accurate information on there about a massive range of topics.

a lot of wikipedia is sourced, so it can be used as a starting reference to find detailed information. it can be editted, but you can also check editting history to see if it has been altered or vandalised recently.

 
Can you just edit things on wiki if or whenever you feel like it? If so, how could you ever use it as a reliable source for anything? I hope kids don't use it for school projects etc. Sounds ridiculous!

We are not allowed to use Wikipedia for any uni work in my course.

It is not considered reference material, it's seen as anecdotal. Then again, bloody uni won't let us use blogs as reference material either... try writing a contemporary fashion thesis without using blogs. Gees! :rolleyes:

However, as Deanox pointed out, it's really good if you want a quick answer to something where you can then go back to the cited sources and find some more credible information.

We are not allowed to use Wikipedia for any uni work in my course.

It is not considered reference material, it's seen as anecdotal. Then again, bloody uni won't let us use blogs as reference material either... try writing a contemporary fashion thesis without using blogs. Gees! :rolleyes:

However, as Deanox pointed out, it's really good if you want a quick answer to something where you can then go back to the cited sources and find some more credible information.

exactly...same here and it is very tempting. i often read something there just to get an "idea" of what is going on and then try to find some "real" information. But a lot of it is cited so you can use those sites as references...


You can just edit it whenever you feel like it, that's what a wiki is, by definition. Wikipedia is fairly heavily moderated, and articles 'stub' articles (i.e. incomplete articles, articles with no citations etc) are marked as such. Articles that contain nonsense are either usually edited by more well-meaning contributors, or by Wikipedia staff pretty quickly.

You'd never treat Wikipedia as gospel because you never know who's contributed what, however the concept in my mind works pretty well, and there is an absolute wealth of accurate information on there about a massive range of topics.

I feel the same way. I often go there just to read up and get a general idea on stuff I'm interested in. And most of the crap gets edited out pretty quickly, because, despite what some people would have you believe, there are a lot of people out there who try to make sure that Wikipedia is as accurate as possible.

We are not allowed to use Wikipedia for any uni work in my course.

It is not considered reference material, it's seen as anecdotal. Then again, bloody uni won't let us use blogs as reference material either... try writing a contemporary fashion thesis without using blogs. Gees! :rolleyes:

However, as Deanox pointed out, it's really good if you want a quick answer to something where you can then go back to the cited sources and find some more credible information.

Yeah, can't reference Wikipedia in my uni course either. But that's not to say I don't use it as a starting guide if possible. It was a godsend when I was at school though.

Gotta give it to them...

...it's pretty funny.

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