{"id":1518,"date":"2007-12-07T16:47:29","date_gmt":"2007-12-07T21:47:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/2007\/12\/07\/students-should-use-wikipedia\/"},"modified":"2015-09-14T08:07:54","modified_gmt":"2015-09-14T12:07:54","slug":"students-should-use-wikipedia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/2007\/12\/07\/students-should-use-wikipedia\/","title":{"rendered":"Students &#8216;should use Wikipedia&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/pcin.net\/c\/?1828\">BBC News<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has said teachers who refuse students access to the site are &#8220;bad educators&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the Online Information conference at London&#8217;s Olympia, he dismissed the long-running controversy over the site&#8217;s authority.<\/p>\n<p>He said he now thinks that students should be able to cite the online encyclopaedia in their work.<\/p>\n<p>Previously, Mr Wales believed that the website, which is edited by users, lacked the authority for academic work.<\/p>\n<p>As long as an article included accurate citations, he said he had &#8220;no problem&#8221; with it being used as a reference for students, although academics would &#8220;probably be better off doing their own research&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You can ban kids from listening to rock &#8216;n&#8217; roll music, but they&#8217;re going to anyway,&#8221; he added. &#8220;It&#8217;s the same with information, and it&#8217;s a bad educator that bans their students from reading Wikipedia.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From BBC News: Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has said teachers who refuse students access to the site are &#8220;bad educators&#8221;. Speaking at the Online Information conference at London&#8217;s Olympia, he dismissed the long-running controversy over the site&#8217;s authority. He said he now thinks that students should be able to cite the online encyclopaedia in their &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1977,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1518","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-computer-news","7":"anons"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1977"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1518\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}