How college students use Wikipedia?

[paul]

A study about how college students use Wikipedia, few insights that can help you to use wikipedia more effectively. Check out the source link mentioned as below;



Figure showing "How often do students use Wikipedia during the course–related research process"?
Source: http:// www. uic.edu/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/2830/2476

[celia19O5]

Re:

I often use Wiki to find information. I think it is useful !

[synthesize]

Wikipedia is great and I always use it to find general information about things. But you should beware about validity of the information, as the content is user generated.

[paul]

Wikipedia is great and I always use it to find general information about things. But you should beware about validity of the information, as the content is user generated.

Yes, you can't rely solely on wikipedia, for making any critical decisions you should verify the information from other source too.

[WH-Ken]

Hello Paul,

Even we practice this, When we search a particular topic in Wiki, besides that we do open the links having the similar information. So at actual we do verify the content that we find in wiki with the the other websites delivering the same.

Isn't that correct?

Regards,
Ken.

[WH-Garry9]

Even we practice this, When we search a particular topic in Wiki, besides that we do open the links having the similar information. So at actual we do verify the content that we find in wiki with the the other websites delivering the same.

Isn't that correct?

Indeed. Most of the internet users have a habit of opening few links in the same browser when they search for some information. Mostly, these users check all the links and try to find out the information given on each link.

If the same information is found on a number of links, the chances of the information being genuine is much more

[paul]

Most of the time you will find the wiki articles having supporting links of reliable sources so you can even check the validity of content referring those links.

[WH-Garry9]

Most of the time you will find the wiki articles having supporting links of reliable sources so you can even check the validity of content referring those links.

Those links are posted by the same users who post information on WIKI. Basically, site owners share knowledge on WIKI with a motive of getting a backlink from it as it is a high ranking site with a lot of traffic. However, those links can certainly be referred as the information found on those links is generally genuine information

[paul]

WIKI is moderated regularly and there is very less chance that any spam links left behind unattended.

[j03]

I often use Wikipedia to read around subjects. You can learn an awful lot!

[todaynow]

i use it sometimes~when i am writing my paper! haha

[Roger23]

Wikipedia is the best source for collecting comprehensive information and it has a vast amount of information...When I was a student it helped me a lot in solving my assignments..!!

[Ben Stones]

I often can't find good trustworthy resources about certain topics anywhere else except Wikipedia, although a lot of teachers in colleges state not to completely trust Wikipedia because it can be modified by anyone. Though a lot of statements on Wikipedia articles have citations (for example a [1] hyperlink just after the statement giving proof of the statement accuracy and validity), so I still use Wikipedia for research and report purposes. It's really useful, and free too!

[Mary]

People mostly prefer using wiki information as it is reliable and covers a wide range of concepts.

[Mary]

Wikipedia is a great source of information. You can find information on almost anything. I refer to it all the time.