A Virginia Tech graduate student hit save on her overview of the state workers’ compensation commission one spring day, but before her professor could take a look at it, someone else began deleting ...
The role of Wikipedia in higher education has evolved considerably over the past decade. Once dismissed as an unreliable source, the online encyclopedia is now recognised as a valuable supplementary ...
While crowdsourced information on Wikipedia may not be the first thing that comes to mind when thinking of reliable sources for research, students at the University of California at San Francisco have ...
All through high school, Ani Schug was told to steer clear of Wikipedia. Her teachers talked about the popular online encyclopedia “as if it wasn’t serious or trustworthy” and suggested it only be ...
LiAnna Davis remembers when people didn’t want to talk to her at academic conferences: “I had this woman one time who held her folder up over her head and was like, ‘Don’t let my department chair see ...
But a Monash University study has found that students and ­academics alike are missing a giant opportunity to contribute to world knowledge by shunning the right to edit the world’s sixth most used ...
Where are students finding the materials they plagiarize in their papers? According to a new study, WIkipedia tops the list for both secondary and college students. But as a category, encyclopedia ...
A course learning goal in our public administration course is to facilitate student-led knowledge exchange by expanding public access to information and resources on this subject. Student groups are ...
Mahad's law of molecular vibration, political deception, space psychology, antibiotic use in agriculture. These are just some of the articles that are requested in Wikipedia. position as the top ...
Fake news has been, well, in the news a lot lately. But for the world's largest crowdsourced encyclopedia, it's nothing new. "Wikipedia has been dealing with fake news since it started 16 years ago," ...