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TOP 100 TOOLS
Wikipedia
Wikipedia is the biggest multi-national free
content encyclopaedia in the world. It has been written collaboratively by
volunteers around the world and the vast majority of
its articles can be edited by anyone with access to
the Internet.
Comments from some of those who selected Wikipedia as one
of their Top 10 Tools in 2009
Comments from those who selected Wikipedia as one
of their Top 10 Tools in 2008
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"Excellent, accessible and accurate. Another starting
point for web research."
Karl Goddard
- "Often top of the list when searching a topic on Google,
Wikipedia has all the bases covered"
Rich Chetwynd
- "More and more the easiest way to find a piece of
factual" Simply brilliant one stop, free,
reference source for nearly everything on the planet.
The quality & accuracy of the content is maturing
everyday."
Jack Chapman
- information. I use a lot of materials from the
Wikimedia Commons in most things that I create."
Hans de Zwart
- "The collective encyclopedia where I look whenever I
need to know more about something"
Guy Boulet
- "I look up things in the ultimate of encyclopedias several times per week. Amazing example of
a community coming together to make the world a better
place."
Heather Ross
- "reference. The link from my searches I'm most
likely to select when I want a definitive answer"
Clark Quinn
- "A
starting point and ending point for most of the things I
research."
Janet
Clarey
- "it's where I start. For everything."
Michelle
Gallen
- "Great place to find almost anything here"
Manish Mohan
- "A free encyclopedia built
collaboratively using Wiki software"
Jose
Carlos del Arco
- "Who needs to write a glossary anymore in an online
course? By default, I always send my students to
wikipedia now."
Daniel Lemire
- "Gets better all the time when it come to
reliability and content. Can't imagine a web without it
anymore."
Edwin
Mijnsbergen
- "Wikipedia is now maturing to an extent that you can rely
its content as much as you can on edited and proofed
traditional encyclopaedias."
Charles
Jennings
"For all the criticism levelled against it; it is
a brilliant source of information."
Jason Denys
"What can you say?
Simply amazing. Flawed to be sure, but that is the
nature of beast. You just have to know when to trust
what is there and when to get second opinions. I
sometimes use Wikipedia as a first source for info,
before doing a Google search. And a hat-tip goes to
MediaWiki too, the software that runs Wikipedia (and
that I've used for corporate wikis as well)."
Thomas Stone
"Has become a backbone for
personal learning and research. From personal
interests to unknown acronyms it is the first
place I look to search for information"
Rebecca Jones
"To get accurate up-to-date information on any
number of topics that I do not know about."
Benjamin
Hamilton
"It’s
just a great reference site."
Karen Ver
"Just about any small piece of information
I need can be found on wikipedia."
Mark Schumann
"I use this for college research purposes"
Karen OBrien
"The best starting point for entering a new topic.
Whether the content is right or wrong it's sure to get you engaged
and developing your own understanding quickly."
Andrew
Middleton
"If I ever need a
quick quip of information on - anything really - I can search Wiki
and get exactly what I need."
Adam Kosh
"My students use this
as a starting point for a lot of their research. I often do
too."
Kris Stanhope
Comments from those who selected Wikipedia as one
of their Top 10 Tools in 2007
- "You know a tool is close to
essential when you find that, even in those precious
offline moments, you wish you had access to it. I find
myself making mental notes to myself: "must remember to
look that up on Wikipedia later"
David
Jennings
- "My first stop if I want to learn
about something specific, as opposed to find things as a
result of a search, I go from particular pages to the
external links or related items as a second step"
Mark van
Harmelen
- "A definite starting point"
Daniel Molnar
- "I use it for everything -- finding
information about a topic on the fly, finding graphics
related to a topic, doing initial research about
something I'm interested in, even just a good old
fashioned random article search. It represents a
powerful paradigm shift in how knowledge is shared and
stored, and it's just plain fun for nerds like me."
Robert
Talbert
- "even with the
inaccuracies, it’s an easy first place to go for basics"
Lisa
Valentine
- "Simply
a massive wonderful disruptively fast growing learning
resource (encyclopaedia), which you can find articles on
basically everything. I suppose
Answers.com
is also worth mentioning, but without Wikipedia it
would hardly be any answers in it"
Zaid Alsagoff
- "What can you say?
Simply amazing. Flawed to be sure, but that is the
nature of beast. You just have to know when to trust
what is there and when to get second opinions. I
sometimes use Wikipedia as a first source for info,
before doing a Google search."
Thomas Stone
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