Date: Sun, 06 Jul 2008 17:05:27 -0700 From: perryh@pluto.rain.com To: perrin@apotheon.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: anyone been crazy enough to mirror wikipedia? Message-ID: <48715dc7.cjOikDOQTxw0PU4L%perryh@pluto.rain.com> In-Reply-To: <20080706232005.GC61711@kokopelli.hydra> References: <BMEDLGAENEKCJFGODFOCCEMJCFAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> <20080704120028.W7036@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <20080706232005.GC61711@kokopelli.hydra>
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> In my house, we had an encyclopedia because I was in school ... > it was useful for research papers. I suspect the usefulness would depend on what one's teachers meant by "research", which tends to change with grade level. 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 :)
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