Recent questions tagged wikipedia

Description : Do Wikipedia pages about famous people in countries outside of the United States and not written in English state where the person’s family is from?

Last Answer : Maybe. The Wikipedia pages in different languages are completely separate from the English pages and could well contain more info on them than the English pages. But as everything is added by users there’s no hard and fast rule ability what you might be covered.

Description : Is Wikipedia a bad source of information?

Last Answer : answer:Depends. On many things, no, but on anything the slightest bit controversial too many edits contradicting too many others. For instance. Most biology articles ( an article on ... inclined than scientifically descriptive. Still, most teachers will not accept wiki articles are source material.

Description : Do you find Jimmy Wales appealing?

Last Answer : Irritating. Although he must have caught on, because now it is a parade of Wikipedia authors, no more appealing.

Description : Do you think people take wikipedia for granted?

Last Answer : answer:Really good question - and I think the answer may be yes. However, I think that this, although negative subjectively now, is the way it will be more and more - we will share our information through ... be taken for granted because that's the way it is. And I'm kind of excited about that.

Description : Care to share an interesting Wikipedia article you've read recently?

Last Answer : Gini Coefficient List of inventors killed by their own inventions

Description : Do you agree with the FBI's order to Wikipedia to remove the FBI seal?

Last Answer : answer:I don't care who owns the seal. What I want to tell the FBI is to be more concerned with coordinating information with other federal agencies to keep me safe. Crap still falls through ... about steroids in baseball while we have other major issues in this country to worry about. Rant over.

Description : Do you think Wikipedia vandals should be banned forever?

Last Answer : Nah I think it’s funny sometimes There are other sources to get information

Description : Why does Wikipedia need 6 million dollars?

Last Answer : So they can buy the same $100,000 hammers that the government uses.

Description : Is there a website I can use for resourcing other than Wikipedia?

Last Answer : There used to be a place where all sorts of knowledge could be found. Volumes and volumes of information all in one spot having previously been subjected to a rigorous editing and publishing process. Now what was this place called.. what was it…. oh.. right… the library.