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{{cquote| I am an educator. And my own education is important as well. I spend a lot of time learning about the world - brain science, history, and teaching in my case - from the usual sources. And yet, these usual sources - research articles, books, podcast, etc, - are too one-dimensional. They provide information on just the topics that author chooses to cover, whereas real learning is multi-dimensional, and must take a course unique to each learner. Wikipedia lets me make that own course to increase the dimensions. When I am read about dopamine and I want to find out more about basal ganglia, I turn to Wikipedia. When I am read a history book that lacks maps or pictures of the participants, I search them out on Wikipedia. When I read about Paulo Freire and want to know how he died, I turn to Wikipedia. Wikipedia adds unlimited dimensions to my education. }} |
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{{cquote|I use Wikipedia for everything. Probably would not have passed engineering/ found jobs without it. My best Wikipedia story comes from summer internship 2009. Friend and I were of course bored out of minds 3pm-5pm everyday. So we made a Wikipedia game. The game starts with picking a random wiki page, lets say apple pie. My friend would give me a random topic, lets say quantum mechanics. The game was then to get from apple pie to quantum mechanics by only using links in the bodies of the wiki articles. For example: apple-pie -> world war II -> dropped atomic bomb(Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki)->J. Robert Oppenheimer -> Quantum mechanics. 4 links, 4 points. I think we got this one to 3 points. Can't remember how. Additional rules: could not use (1)disambiguation links (2) Menu under wikipedia icon on the left links (3) no "see also" or references links. Links had to be from body of articles basically. Thanks for the good times. }} |
{{cquote|I use Wikipedia for everything. Probably would not have passed engineering/ found jobs without it. My best Wikipedia story comes from summer internship 2009. Friend and I were of course bored out of minds 3pm-5pm everyday. So we made a Wikipedia game. The game starts with picking a random wiki page, lets say apple pie. My friend would give me a random topic, lets say quantum mechanics. The game was then to get from apple pie to quantum mechanics by only using links in the bodies of the wiki articles. For example: apple-pie -> world war II -> dropped atomic bomb(Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki)->J. Robert Oppenheimer -> Quantum mechanics. 4 links, 4 points. I think we got this one to 3 points. Can't remember how. Additional rules: could not use (1)disambiguation links (2) Menu under wikipedia icon on the left links (3) no "see also" or references links. Links had to be from body of articles basically. Thanks for the good times. }} |
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