Sleeping with the Enemy: Wikipedia in the College Classroom
Authors | Cullen J. Chandler Alison S. Gregory |
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Publication date | 2010 |
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Sleeping with the Enemy: Wikipedia in the College Classroom - scientific work related to Wikipedia quality published in 2010, written by Cullen J. Chandler and Alison S. Gregory.
Overview
Wikipedia is a free online encyclopedia that is written and edited solely by volunteers who have no qualifying credentials save an Internet connection. With over 3.1 million articles in English, Wikipedia is indeed a formidable reference web site.2 From a research standpoint, Wikipedia is both the sinner and the saint: because anyone can make changes to content, Wikipedia lacks scholarly backbone in the form of subject experts and a referee process, but there is strength in its continual updating, allowing new information to be added very quickly instead of taking years to be added to a traditional print encyclopedia.3 While it certainly should not be the one and only source for undergraduate research, Wikipedia may have appropriate uses in the college classroom. If there are no editors or peer referees, where is the quality control in Wikipedia? Some will argue that if enough Wikipedians are working on
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Wikipedia Quality
Chandler, Cullen J.; Gregory, Alison S.. (2010). "[[Sleeping with the Enemy: Wikipedia in the College Classroom]]". Society for History Education. California State University, Long Beach, 1250 Bellflower Boulevard, Long Beach, CA 90840-1601. Tel: 562-985-2573; Fax: 562-985-5431; Web site: http://www.thehistoryteacher.org/.
English Wikipedia
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Chandler, Cullen J.; Gregory, Alison S.. (2010). "<a href="https://wikipediaquality.com/wiki/Sleeping_with_the_Enemy:_Wikipedia_in_the_College_Classroom">Sleeping with the Enemy: Wikipedia in the College Classroom</a>". Society for History Education. California State University, Long Beach, 1250 Bellflower Boulevard, Long Beach, CA 90840-1601. Tel: 562-985-2573; Fax: 562-985-5431; Web site: http://www.thehistoryteacher.org/.