Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2008 12:48:42 -0600 From: Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: anyone been crazy enough to mirror wikipedia? Message-ID: <20080707184842.GC94816@kokopelli.hydra> In-Reply-To: <48715dc7.cjOikDOQTxw0PU4L%perryh@pluto.rain.com> References: <BMEDLGAENEKCJFGODFOCCEMJCFAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> <20080704120028.W7036@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <20080706232005.GC61711@kokopelli.hydra> <48715dc7.cjOikDOQTxw0PU4L%perryh@pluto.rain.com>
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--at6+YcpfzWZg/htY Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Jul 06, 2008 at 05:05:27PM -0700, perryh@pluto.rain.com wrote: > > In my house, we had an encyclopedia because I was in school ... >=20 > > it was useful for research papers. >=20 > I suspect the usefulness would depend on what one's teachers meant > by "research", which tends to change with grade level. >=20 > In elementary and middle school, certainly. In high school, maybe. > In college, probably not. Postgraduate, almost certainly not; at > that level one should be using primary sources (and likely know > enough to be writing articles *for* an encyclopedia :) It was "useful" in grade school because teachers didn't actually believe anyone at that age would ever go beyond the encyclopedia except in the case of token satisfaction of assignment requirements. It was "useful" in middle school and beyond the same way Wikipedia is now: it gave me ideas of the sorts of directions to take my research when I sought out more rigorously researched sources of information. I certainly never cited an encyclopedia in any research paper after sixth grade -- because I wasn't an idiot. --=20 Chad Perrin [ content licensed PDL: http://pdl.apotheon.org ] Larry Wall: "You can never entirely stop being what you once were. That's why it's important to be the right person today, and not put it off till tomorrow." --at6+YcpfzWZg/htY Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkhyZQoACgkQ9mn/Pj01uKWMewCgtcJELTQ9nD9BS7kmRYzlmUsA RG4AnRvzboDJid8zpfTqBNDL+ZOGt9hj =Q98r -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --at6+YcpfzWZg/htY--
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