Using Wikipedia: Crash Course Navigating Digital Information #5
neutral point of view (NPOV)
Information must be presented fairly, proportionately and without bias
Wikipedia core content policies
Neutral point of view, verifiability, and no original research
wikipedia
Online encyclopedia that can be edited by nearly anyone in the world, allowing people with different backgrounds and knowledge to collaborate and research together
Superscript
Text that is reduced in size and raised to the top of the current line.
encyclopedia
a book or set of books giving information on many subjects or on many aspects of one subject and typically arranged alphabetically.
As of the day they filmed this video there are 1206
administrators for the english wikipedia site.
You shouldn't use a single site
as a definitive source.
Today wikipedia has many more wikipedians and even bots to
enforce rigorous content policies and prevent and correct your bad edits.
cogent
forceful, convincing; relevant, to the point
Wikipedia is dependent on published sources, which have their own
gender and racial biases and contribute to what is and is not verifiable.
Wikipedia has become the internet's largest
general reference work with over 40 million articles in 301 languages.
star nosed mole
is easily identifiable by the twenty-two pink, fleshy appendages ringing its snout which is used as a touch organ with more than 25,000 minute sensory receptors, known as Eimer's organs, with which this hamster-sized mole feels its way around. (sourced from wikipedia)
Wikipedia talk tab
is where you can see the conversations wikipedians have had about editing that article.
Wikipedia is an excellent place to harvest
its citations.
To tell if a wikipedia page is locked
look to its upper right hand corner for a little padlock icon.
Wikipedia should not be your
one stop shop for conducting in-depth research, nor is it permission to cite it on your works cited page.
Verifiability
people reading and editing articles must be able to check that the information comes from a reliable source
original research
presents new scientific data not previously published
There are over 34.8 million
registered wikipedians, about 134,000 of whom have edited in the past month.
There are some wikipedia pages are especially prone to vandalism due to
sensitive or controversial topics. As a result they end up becoming a protected or semi protected page that limits who and when a page can be edited.
breadth
the width of something, comprehensive quality
set the record straight
to correct a false story; to provide accurate information
Wikipedians can add flagged notes to the
top of a page so the reader is fairly warned of any concerns about content before starting to read.
Wikipedia view history tab
you can see how and when an article has been edited and by whom.
