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Wiki - means quick in Hawaiian
Soooo Wikipedia means quick encyclopedia :)
Well I'm not to fond of this encyclopedia. Anyone with internet access can make changes to the articles people have created. Misinformation can be added until it has been edited or removed. I'm not impressed with wikipedia. There is to much fault in this system.I realize one day everything we do will be done through the web. Until that happens I'll stick with the old stand by. The good old hard cover encyclopedia books. I know I can count on them to be accurate. While I was reading about the pros and the cons of Wikipedia I noticed it had mentioned that sometimes it can take weeks or even months to detect or remove misinformation. Can you imagine a kid doing a report for school and someone had just edited some information he or she was reporting on. That person edited that information incorrectly. Not a good thing! I think teachers should think twice about letting students use this as a learning tool.
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I agree with you completely!
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