Is Wikipedia a reliable source?

I have heard that Wiki is not a reliable source, but there aren't anymore other encyclopedias on the Internet that I can find. If you could provide me with a site like Wiki, that would be immensely helpful. Thanks.

Wikipedia has been known in any formal education institution for exhibiting systemic bias and inconsistency; they argue that Wikipedia's open nature and a lack of proper sources for much of the information makes it unreliable.

Many university lecturers around the world discourage students from citing any encyclopedia in academic work, preferring primary sources;

In any University in United States you cannot use Wikipedia as a referred reference or resource for any project or work papers. The reason is because the authors are not experienced and they are neither professional or qualified to compose any material that can be used in anyway for tertiary educational platforms.

Similar cases are also with tertiary educational institutions around the world - especially UK and Europe.

Concerns have also been raised regarding the lack of accountability that results from users' anonymity, and that it is vulnerable to vandalism and similar problems

Wikipedia's community has been described as "cult-like, although not always with entirely negative connotations, and criticized for failing to accommodate inexperienced users.

no. the material is submitted by anyone.

i don't think you will get it for free on line.
but there is a disc by Encarta which is very reasonably priced..


hope this helps.

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Wikipedia is a great site for info. The catch to it is that one can make public changes on the website, so there can be a tangling of certain info. Some famous people, things, or places don't even have pages on wiki, so one can get a downer time to time.

Answers is a good place for info.

no

No, anyone can edit and put wrong info onto wiki articles, and I really don't know any other online encyclopedias XP sorry.
dictionary.com helps too. XDD

Depending on the subject, Wikipedia has been found pretty accurate, but when it comes to more emotional, business, or political entries, you'll need to dig more in depth. Several entries were found to be "sanitized" by companies and governments lately when a scanner for edits was used (see the last link below for the tool itself).

There are several free online encyclopedias you can use, such as MSN's encarta. Also, doing well-formed searches in Yahoo Search or Google can get you a ton of information as well.

If you do look in Wikipedia for your information, remember two things: First, be sure to look for their citations and look them up. Second, some teachers/professors will refuse to allow Wikipedia as a citation in a paper, so be sure either way.

Good luck!

wikipedia, is and okay site for like certain things like looking up cartoon info, but for actual stuff like for school I suggest and actual encyclopedia site, but sadly I dont no anyother sites, sry,

You're right about Wiki not being very reliable because I could go on there right now and edit an article to say something totally random. People post information on there that is not always accurate.
My teacher had a good way of sorting out good Wiki stuff and bad stuff. She said that we could use Wikipedia to find ideas for things or information, but that we could not use the actual information in our project without looking it up on a more trusted source. So basically, we could search Wiki for facts but we had to find another site with the information, and we would use the second site as our citation.

A good site:

http://www.britannica.com/

and you can always go to google and search for information, or you can go to the library and use real encyclopedias! :-)

P.S. Watch out for sites like answers.com. Sometimes it looks like they have a lot of good information, but really what they do most of the time is copy articles from Wikipedia! The site is okay, but make sure that the information you use from it doesn't come from Wikipedia.

heck ya i love it

Wikipedia is a reliable source.
Its fine to use it.

ecyclopedia.com works well and its free

Sure, there are plenty of wiki projects on the web, like WikiHow, Bulbapedia, and iPodWiKi, but there is only one Comprehensive Encyclopedia Wiki, and that's Wikipedia. So No luck in that department.

No it is not unless the pages have reliable links. If they do then wikipedia can be a good starting point.

mostly. some articles need more info. and some things dont have articles on them.
and occasionally you may find an inaccuracy.

eg. i found this article about Pangea i went to the section about how it split apart. and it said the Mississippi River was a rift.

I edited that...

The Wikimedia foundation says that you should NEVER use the wikipedia as a reliable source. You should double check with a regular source before treating wikipedia info as fact.

There is no information on the internet that is entirely reliable because anyone could have put it there and the same goes for wikipedia. But I've heard that it is about 75% as accurate as the Britanica encyclopedias.. which is pretty good for the internet.

yes its reliable but not dependaple for something really importants like gor ur job for fun dough its good information because anyone can write an article

not at all

No. Wikipedia, is like yahoo answers. Anyone can add anything to it, and say whatever without having to prove where they got/did their research.

Wikipedia is often as (and sometimes more) accurate as electronic versions of paper encyclopedias.

If you really want to see another, maybe you should visit http://www.britannica.com/ (This is the electronic version of the Encyclopaedia Britannica).

If that doesn't suit you, look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:On... for others.

no, because any idiot or person can go and put wrong info and i copied some of the info on their be4 i knew about it and i made a bad grade......so dont use wikipedia

No, because theoretically there is no author. Anyone can change the content without supervision or some source that could be trustworthy...

yeah but sometimes pranksters mess up the pages
like they did for the admiral Akbar article they deleted everything and made it say it's a trap

wikipedia is a reliable source but if you want another one then either go here (lol) or to answers.com