{"id":37,"date":"2017-02-11T23:26:36","date_gmt":"2017-02-11T23:26:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/integrations.pressbooks.network\/webliteracy\/chapter\/wikipedia\/"},"modified":"2020-03-17T19:52:24","modified_gmt":"2020-03-17T19:52:24","slug":"wikipedia","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/integrations.pressbooks.network\/webliteracy\/chapter\/wikipedia\/","title":{"raw":"Wikipedia","rendered":"Wikipedia"},"content":{"raw":"Wikipedia<\/em> is broadly misunderstood by faculty and students alike. While Wikipedia<\/em> must be approached with caution, especially with articles that are covering contentious subjects or evolving events, it is often the best source to get a consensus viewpoint on a subject. Because the Wikipedia <\/em>community has strict rules about sourcing facts to reliable sources, and because authors must adopt a neutral point of view, its articles are often the best available introduction to a subject on the web.\n\nThe focus on sourcing all claims has another beneficial effect. If you can find a claim expressed in a Wikipedia<\/em> article, you can almost always follow the footnote on the claim to a reliable source. Scholars, reporters, and students can all benefit from using Wikipedia<\/em> to quickly find authoritative sources for claims.\n\nAs an example, consider a situation where you need to source a claim that the Dallas 2016 police shooter was motivated by hatred of police officers. Wikipedia<\/em> will summarize what is known about his motives and, more importantly, will source each claim, as follows:\n
Chief Brown said that Johnson, who was black<\/a>, was upset about recent police shootings and the Black Lives Matter movement, and \"stated he wanted to kill white people, especially white officers.\"[4]<\/a><\/sup>[5]<\/a><\/sup> A friend and former coworker of Johnson's described him as \"always [being] distrustful of the police.\"[61]<\/a><\/sup> Another former coworker said he seemed \"very affected\" by recent police shootings of black men.[64]<\/a><\/sup> A friend said that Johnson had anger management<\/a> problems and would repeatedly watch video of the 1991 beating of Rodney King<\/a> by police officers.[85]<\/a><\/sup>\n\nInvestigators found no ties between Johnson and international terrorist or domestic extremist groups.[66]<\/a><\/sup><\/blockquote>\nEach footnote leads to a source that the community has deemed reliable. The article as a whole contains over 160 footnotes. If you are researching a complex question, starting with the resources and summaries provided by Wikipedia<\/em> can give you a substantial running start on an issue.","rendered":"

Wikipedia<\/em> is broadly misunderstood by faculty and students alike. While Wikipedia<\/em> must be approached with caution, especially with articles that are covering contentious subjects or evolving events, it is often the best source to get a consensus viewpoint on a subject. Because the Wikipedia <\/em>community has strict rules about sourcing facts to reliable sources, and because authors must adopt a neutral point of view, its articles are often the best available introduction to a subject on the web.<\/p>\n

The focus on sourcing all claims has another beneficial effect. If you can find a claim expressed in a Wikipedia<\/em> article, you can almost always follow the footnote on the claim to a reliable source. Scholars, reporters, and students can all benefit from using Wikipedia<\/em> to quickly find authoritative sources for claims.<\/p>\n

As an example, consider a situation where you need to source a claim that the Dallas 2016 police shooter was motivated by hatred of police officers. Wikipedia<\/em> will summarize what is known about his motives and, more importantly, will source each claim, as follows:<\/p>\n

Chief Brown said that Johnson, who was black<\/a>, was upset about recent police shootings and the Black Lives Matter movement, and “stated he wanted to kill white people, especially white officers.”[4]<\/a><\/sup>[5]<\/a><\/sup> A friend and former coworker of Johnson’s described him as “always [being] distrustful of the police.”[61]<\/a><\/sup> Another former coworker said he seemed “very affected” by recent police shootings of black men.[64]<\/a><\/sup> A friend said that Johnson had anger management<\/a> problems and would repeatedly watch video of the 1991 beating of Rodney King<\/a> by police officers.[85]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

Investigators found no ties between Johnson and international terrorist or domestic extremist groups.[66]<\/a><\/sup><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Each footnote leads to a source that the community has deemed reliable. The article as a whole contains over 160 footnotes. If you are researching a complex question, starting with the resources and summaries provided by Wikipedia<\/em> can give you a substantial running start on an issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"menu_order":3,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[47],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-37","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry","chapter-type-standard"],"part":28,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/integrations.pressbooks.network\/webliteracy\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/37","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/integrations.pressbooks.network\/webliteracy\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/integrations.pressbooks.network\/webliteracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/integrations.pressbooks.network\/webliteracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/integrations.pressbooks.network\/webliteracy\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/37\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38,"href":"https:\/\/integrations.pressbooks.network\/webliteracy\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/37\/revisions\/38"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/integrations.pressbooks.network\/webliteracy\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/28"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/integrations.pressbooks.network\/webliteracy\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/37\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/integrations.pressbooks.network\/webliteracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/integrations.pressbooks.network\/webliteracy\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=37"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/integrations.pressbooks.network\/webliteracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=37"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/integrations.pressbooks.network\/webliteracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}