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Comment author: JGWeissman 19 November 2010 06:36:51AM 3 points [-]

And I hate when so-called educators try to imply Wikipedia is low status or somehow making us dumber.

How much does that happen? It is my understanding that educators don't mind students using Wikipedia to gather information, as long as they use Wikipedia's references to validate that information, and then cite those references. That is, Wikipedia is a valid tool for finding sources and summaries of those sources, but it is not a source itself.

Comment author: Andersun 28 June 2011 12:04:03AM *  0 points [-]

The educators I've spoken to tend to dislike encyclopaedias in general. It's nothing against Wikipedia.