Researching a Resource: Mining Wikipedia for
Credible Resources
Directions: the directions are listed below, but first I
wanted to provide a rationale for this assignment. It's
taking a while for many instructors and professors to
come around to the use of Wikipedia as a source. I
compromise in two ways. First, I allow students to use
Wikipedia as a source, but it does not count towards
your five source minimum. Second, I use the following
exercise. In this exercise you'll learn how to research a
Wikipedia entry to verify its credibility AND to mine the
entry for viable sources in the notes and references.
Please complete the following and submit it.
1. Go to Wikipedia 2. Type in a search term related to your topic. 3. Review the source
a. 4. 5. Provide a basic summary of the source. Review the citations/references/notes. They are
found at the bottom of the page. Pick two of the citations/references. 6. Copy and paste the citation/reference for the
two sources that you pick. 7. View history (found at the top of the page on the
right-hand side). 8. Copy and paste times and dates of the first two
changes. 9. Check the user names (click on them) to see
what you can learn about them. Sample: Search Term: Abortion Summary: This page discusses abortion in a
moral, legal, historical and scientific capacities. First two sources:
1. ^ a b c d Grimes DA, Benson J, Singh S et al. (2006). "Unsafe
abortion: the preventable pandemic" (PDF). Lancet 368
(9550): 1908–19. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(06)69481-6.
PMID 17126724.
http://www.thelancetglobalhealthnetwork.com/wpcontent/uploads/2008/04/sexual_reproductive_health4.pdf. 2. ^ a b c d e Shah, I.; Ahman, E. (December 2009). "Unsafe
abortion: global and regional incidence, trends,
consequences, and challenges" (PDF). Journal of Obstetrics
and Gynaecology Canada 31 (12): 1149–58.
PMID 20085681.
http://www.sogc.org/jogc/abstracts/full/200912_WomensHe
alth_1.pdf. FIRST TWO CHANGES IN HISTORY:
· (cur | prev) 06:57, 9 November 2011 MastCell (talk | contribs) (103,459 bytes) (currently seems to
be clear consensus against this edit on talk page,
and it's being restored by a single user edit-warring) · (cur | prev) 05:25, 9 November 2011 DMSBel (talk | contribs) (103,552 bytes) (→Safety: For the
love of sanity, just leave this a few minutes, if there
are any typos I'll fix them. Yes I use preview, but
occasionally something slips through!)
FINAL ASSESSMENT: The two first sources are
journals. They count as print documents. They are
peer reviewed and therefore are likely credible
sources.

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