Hi Ivan Actually Wikipedia makes this really easy. When you are on a wiki page click on the toolbox (left of the screen) and there is an option to cite this page. Click the link and you will get a page with many recognised formats. (This is an extension to MediaWiki - Think Wikieducator would benefit from this too.)
There is some research to match the reliability of the content on wikipedia with that of Encyclopedia Briticannica and it concluded there was not much difference (Sorry can't provide the reference). If you read the note at the start of the wiki citation page that gives the wikipedian view. With the continuous peer review I think it can be considered a reputable source particularly since many pages now have a comprehensive list of references and have to pass through moderators (much like formal research papers). Cheers Michael On Feb 13, 12:28 pm, "Ivan K." <ivan_521...@yahoo.com> wrote: > How do people approach teaching students how to > cite an internet source? If one is citing an on-line > article with an authors and date, I don't think > there is much of a problem, however how does > one deal with wikipedia? > > My thinking is that wikipedia shouldn't be cited > at all as it cannot be considered a reputable source, > _but_ as many wikipedia entries do have citations, > perhaps one could "cite a wikipedia citation"? That > is, can a student give the source for a piece of information > that the wikipedia article has, but somehow > indicate that this citation was found on wikipedia > and the student has not yet look at the cited material > first hand? > > And if people are doing such a thing, is there a convention > for doing the citation? > > How do people deal with such issues? > > Thanks. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com
