Wikipedia adds citations
July 28th, 2006 | by Tim Wilson |Seen on digg: Wikipedia has added a feature called “Cite This Article” to its site. The feature appears as a link in the Toolbox section of each page and provides key bibliographic information as well as citations pre-formatted in all of the major forms. Interestingly, they add the following note at the top of each citation page:
Most educators and professionals do not consider it appropriate to use tertiary sources such as encyclopedias as a sole source for any information — citing an encyclopedia as an important reference in footnotes or bibiliographies may result in censure or a failing grade. Wikipedia articles should be used for background information, as a reference for correct terminology and search terms, and as a starting point for further research.
Here’s an example citation page for the Wikipedia article about basenjis. (I’m a proud basenji owner.)
4 Responses to “Wikipedia adds citations”
By lea on Jul 30, 2006 | Reply
you could also use http://www.answers.com for resources and they also have a citation feature!
By Tracy Fowler on Jul 31, 2006 | Reply
You’ve got to love Wikipedia’s mission and it’s understanding of it’s content. I also appreciate how they put encyclopedias in their place - a place to get background information and a starting point for research.
By Davis on Dec 20, 2006 | Reply
So I want to know does any body else use wikipedia and what for?
what was the most informatibve artical you found there?
What was the wierdest one you found?
I use wikipedia mostly durring my lunch time at work to just read up on stuff. the most informative artical I found was on the mineing and refineing
process for copper (because I learned about the job I have, and got to show off to co-workers ;p) the most interesting was probably on cheese witch I
actualy e-mailed to my self so I could finish reading it after work.
oh well, got wiki?