Wikipedia Tutorial

Many teachers will not allow you to use Wikipedia for research purposes. 

This explains why.  

[However, notice that in some areas Wikipedia is very accurate, and you can see this article that shows how Wikipedia's reputation is changing:  https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/happy-18th-birthday-wikipedia-lets-celebrate-the-internets-good-grown-up/2019/01/14/e4d854cc-1837-11e9-9ebf-c5fed1b7a081_story.html?utm_term=.bb981f55a3e4&wpisrc=nl_ideas&wpmm=1

View this tutorial: http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/tutorials/wikipedia/  [That’s  n c s u.]   Parts of the tutorial have been copied below.  Fill in the blanks for the cloze exercise.  Part of this assignment has already been done for you.   Under the video, you can click on “Transcript to this video” if want to find and check answers by reading it.  

https://www.lib.ncsu.edu/tutorials/wikipedia/

Wikipedia: Beneath the Surface”

What is a wiki? How does the information get into Wikipedia? Find out what goes on behind the scenes.

A wiki is a special kind of  (1) ____________________ that allows many people to (2) __contribute____ to the (3) ____content_____.

The word “wiki” means (4)________________________.

Wikis help people (5) _____collaborate_____    (6) ____________________.

Wikipedia allows   (7) ____anyone_____ in the world to

(8) ___________________ an (9)___________________.

(10) __________________________, and then

(11) ____________________________ to the information on a topic.

A good page on Wikipedia will include references to (3 words)

(12-14) ____other_________  ________________________  ___________________________

so readers know where the (15) _____________________________ is coming from.

Wikipedia’s guidelines emphasize that all content should present a (16) _____________________ point of view.  

On Wikipedia, the content can (17) ______evolve (change)_______  over (18) _______________________.

You can often find lively debate about the content under the (19) ___________________________ tab.

Under the (20)______________________________ tab you can see every change that has make on a Wikipedia page, and some indication of who made it.

One of the controversial aspects of Wikipedia is that it’s (21)___impossible_____ to tell anything about the (22) _______________________________.

Unlike Wikipedia, books, journals, magazines, newspapers have gone through a process that assure the  (23) ____quality______ and (24)_________________________ of the information.

Wikipedia articles may contain (25) _________________________ or (26) ____debatable___ information.

Wikipedia is a (27)_____________________________ point into other sources like books, articles, newspapers, and websites.   

Use it for (28)____________________________ information, but dig (29)_____________________ and search (30) _____________________, too.

(31)  What is good about Wikipedia?  ______________________________________
____________________________________________________________________________

^{This last is your own answer!}