Wikipedia

[chemicalrubber]

Does Wikipedia rule? Are you a Wikipediholic? Find out here. By the way, my Wikipediholic rating is 3646. Come visit me.

[limabifrost]

Wikipedia is a guilty pleasure at University. It's against the regulations to use it in your work/study, but i bet you'd be hard pushed to find someone who hasn't used it at least once.

[chemicalrubber]

Originally Posted by limabifrost

Wikipedia is a guilty pleasure at University. It's against the regulations to use it in your work/study, but i bet you'd be hard pushed to find someone who hasn't used it at least once.

Yeah, but you can always quote the sources at the bottom, some padding won't hurt.

[ghstbcky]

That test has so many questions

I use it occasionally.

[Siml985]

Oh, it's lovely. Can't trust the information half the time, but otherwise, it's a great place for stuffs. I believe I'm registered under the username SushiShikane.

[SmartCanuck1988]

Originally Posted by limabifrost

Wikipedia is a guilty pleasure at University. It's against the regulations to use it in your work/study, but i bet you'd be hard pushed to find someone who hasn't used it at least once.

Very true


I lookup things on wikipedia as a quick way to read what something is --much easier than flipping through a 1500-page textbook ... but after I get the main ideas (say for a paper I'm writing or something), then I start to look for proper sources (sometimes even the sources at the bottom of the wiki page aren't good).


Sometimes though I spend hours just reading one page after the other on wikipedia and after that I realize how far I went after starting with a simple completely unrelated search

.. but I'd say I use it occasionally.

[ghstbcky]

I relied on Wikipedia to help me understand a book I needed to know for my English exam. It was written in 1850, and I didn't get half of it.

I didn't bother reading it all until three days before the exam, and some of my class didn't ever read it.

[yarnbury11]

We were meant to read Lord of the Flies at home, but nobody did because we expected we were gonna go through its meaning in detail in class. Instead, we did crappy chapter summaries and nobody understood it

[ghstbcky]

Yeah, that was like us with The Scarlet Letter.

Wikipedia proved very useful.

[SmartCanuck1988]

anybody uses sparknotes?

[limabifrost]

Originally Posted by yarnbury11

We were meant to read Lord of the Flies at home, but nobody did because we expected we were gonna go through its meaning in detail in class. Instead, we did crappy chapter summaries and nobody understood it

I loved that book! Not that I had to study it, though. I think that can ruin a book sometimes.

Oh, and Sparknotes??

Edit: just looked them up, and no, I didn't! They don't even have my subjects on there.

[yarnbury11]

Obviously it can, 'cause I found it quite horrifically boring.

[HASSARD2004]

I couldn't be bothered to finish the test, i use wikipedia for looking up just about anything, so i know i am a wikiholic

[B53n3]

Originally Posted by SmartCanuck1988

anybody uses sparknotes?

i heard of it, i think my teacher told us to use it, did i?? Nope boring

my wikipedia score is a mega 632 (i dont edit wikipedia ) i dont even have wikipedia page. Must make one for self. How do you do it?

[DolphinDriv3r]

I think wikipedia is really good, especially as it can be edited by anyone so all the information about anything is on one page. I tend to use it to look up most things, and I edit things where necessary. Oh, and I've made 3 articles....all of which have been marked for deletion

[B53n3]

if there was an -holicism test for this forum then i dont need to take it to work out if i am a EA-UK forum-holic i know i am.

[Speshal Crayon]

So long. My attention span... it crumbles.

I do use Wikipedia an awful lot. I've only edited a couple of times though.

[SmartCanuck1988]

Originally Posted by B53n3

i heard of it, i think my teacher told us to use it, did i?? Nope boring

Back in high school, they kept telling us not to use it

I had to use it for chapter summaries when I couldn't bother to read the whole thing ... Sometimes I had to have specific quotations from a book, but I forget where certain parts are, so I'd google or use sparknotes to see what chapter I'm looking for, then I go back to the actual book to look for the quote.

I'm SO happy that I don't need to do any of this ever again!

[MizVoldemort]

We had a rubbish english teacher for our coursework - sparknotes was a lifesaver - I actually understood Romeo and Juliet after that.



As for wikipedia, I use it a lot, but only to get a general understanding of a subject before I do more research using more specific webpages. Though it was useful in informing me of how a worm moves... the only other things I could find were a children's cartoon and a lengthly paper with loads of equations in it!

I've never edited it myself... Though one of my friends edited it a while back.... for a whole minute or so I was America's Next Top Model.

[limabifrost]

I was referenced under the band Furny on Wikipedia (it's my friend's music project- he wrote a 'song for emma'). However it got deleted as apparently they were too unknown.

[yarnbury11]

I edited myself into the Otley RUFC club staff cause I work in the club shop on Saturday matchdays I'm gonna see if its stil there!
It is

[Aaron]

Now everybody knows your name.

[yarnbury11]

I'm not really that bothered, or I wouldn't have told you. My name originates from Scotland, y'know

[Aaron]

I feel your pain.