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Defining Reliability For Students In a Wild Wiki World

In the wacky Wiki world that is the Internet, it’s hard to know which information is reliable and which isn’t.

User-created content, such as entries found in Wikipedia, the open-to-most online encyclopedia, comes with varying degrees of trustworthiness. Wikipedia, for instance, relies on a number of citizen editors, who act as a broad peer-review process for entries, but it’s still possible to get something by them that’s just plain wrong. Eventually, the entry might be removed but maybe not; Wikipedia boasts more than 1 million articles.

By Frank Ahrens

Full Story: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/09/AR2006090900085.html?sub=AR

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