{"id":1480,"date":"2010-09-10T12:07:28","date_gmt":"2010-09-10T17:07:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/?p=1480"},"modified":"2021-11-27T22:11:41","modified_gmt":"2021-11-28T03:11:41","slug":"the-risks-of-using-wikipedia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/2010\/09\/10\/the-risks-of-using-wikipedia\/","title":{"rendered":"The risks of using Wikipedia as a source"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1485\" href=\"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/2010\/09\/10\/the-risks-of-using-wikipedia\/wikipedia-3\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1485\" src=\"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/wikipedia2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"231\" height=\"206\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/wikipedia2.png 231w, https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/wikipedia2-150x133.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 231px) 100vw, 231px\" \/><\/a><\/h3>\n<h3>If you use Wikipedia, please be aware that there are risks to using it as a source (not even counting the risk of upsetting your teacher, who requested that you use it sparingly, if you use it at all).<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rc3.org\/2010\/09\/08\/the-risks-of-using-wikipedia-as-a-source\/\">So says science Journalist Steve Silberman<\/a>, by way of\u00c2\u00a0 Rafe Colburn of <a href=\"http:\/\/rc3.org\/\">r3c.org<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re curious about the historical context for the TV series <a href=\"http:\/\/www.starz.com\/originals\/ThePillarsOfTheEarth\">The Pillars of the Earth<\/a>,  Wikipedia is an outstanding resource. On the other hand, if you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re  writing a news story about outbreaks of infections caused by  drug-resistant bacteria in hospitals, you shouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t rely on what you  read in Wikipedia. Science journalist Steve Silberman writes about how <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.plos.org\/neurotribes\/2010\/09\/08\/is-wikipedia-journalism-aiding-the-spread-of-a-deadly-superbug\/\">spurious information<\/a> sourced from Wikipedia is pervasive in stories about acinetobacter, and why that bad information could cost people their lives.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you use Wikipedia, please be aware that there are risks to using it as a source (not even counting the risk of upsetting your teacher, who requested that you use it sparingly, if you use it at all). So says science Journalist Steve Silberman. Read more on our blog at http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/blog\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[128,129,127,123],"class_list":["post-1480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information","tag-rafecolburn","tag-spuriousinformation","tag-stevesilberman","tag-wikipedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1480"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1511,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1480\/revisions\/1511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}