Wikipedia... love or hate?

Question

My Honors English teacher assigned a City of Dionysus project today, and along with a group skit, each person must research a specific topic, using any books or websites... except Wikipedia.

So... what is your opinion on Wikipedia?

Answer 1

Love, it's so helpful

Answer 2

LOVE it,

seriously, without it i think i would of got a lower mark on my uni assignments for not understanding medical terminology.

Answer 3

tons of valuable info at my fingertips, whats not to love!

Answer 4

I like it, it's informative, but not all of it is right. I once copied an entire page and i gave it to my teacher for a project. The page made completely no sense.

Answer 5

It's helpful to explain things, and it gives you the references for what it's saying. But never, ever, ever trust it 100% and NEVER cite it in your essays. That's like the secret rule of academia.

Use it to find out stuff, but never trust the content. Just look up the references they used and used those.

Every now and then, when someone gets p*issed, they'll log into wikipedia and change stuff, like that Newton invented the bycicle, and that some football player they hate died last week.

So caveat emptor! ;-)

Answer 6

love

Answer 7

A good place to look for some information but always double check that info  for your facts!

Answer 8

I love it!

Answer 9

Wikipedia is good to use as a reference point. I personally love it, as I learn random obscure facts. For instance: the coldest known point outside of the lab is the Boomerang Nebula with a temperature of 1 K (-272.15 degrees Celsius).

Answer 10

I love it.  I can stay on it for hours clicking on the various hyperlinks LOL

Answer 11

Its good for quick information that doesn't necessarily have to be accurate.

Answer 12

Love..Its good when you need to find something out quickly  =]

Answer 13

i love wikipedia

Answer 14

love it

Answer 15

i love wikipedia, but i have a laptop they gave us at school and they blocked it from access under the Terms of something like unreliable data or something, although it is very helpful for school projects and such  

Answer 16

I found some on the content to be pretty unreliable and false.  

Answer 17

Its ok to get some background information on wiki, but I wouldnt use it as a souce in a term paper or whatever.

Answer 18

Retarded lol

Answer 19

it's okay. i used it for research once and my teacher said it was inaccurate. i don't use it for school anymore

Answer 20

It's very helpful! I like it!

Answer 21

Grr

I hate wikipedia.

It's so misleading xD

It's fun to mess around with some of the info though...*evil laugh*

xD Kidding. Kidding.

Answer 22

Its kinda helpful only if u use it for celebrity ...beleive its so cool is that catogory !

Answer 23

I don't use it.  It's actually very inaccurate compared to other resource sites.

Answer 24

Love it. Thanks to Wikipedia, I get my Homework done in no time and all the information about my favourite stars are on wiki. No one could possibly hate it.