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Professors don't distrust Wikipedia because they regard it as a threat to their supposed monopoly on learning. (They don't regard themselves as as a single uni
by pg 18y ago
Professors don't distrust Wikipedia because they regard it as a threat to their supposed monopoly on learning. (They don't regard themselves as as a single unit at all.) The reason they distrust Wikipedia is that there's no accountability.
The problem is not that it's online, but that the work is unsigned.
I think you're misunderstanding the value of Wikipedia. Its main value is as a fast source of leads, not as a source of authoritative answers.
- prakash 18y agoIts main value is as a fast source of leads, not as a source of authoritative answers. Do you say this in general or with the specific DRM/Academic context? Wikipedia, to me, provides fantastic summaries and quite often an authoritative source, as much as I would believe a major news source, sometimes there is more trust in wikipedia.