{"id":2080,"date":"2017-04-07T08:00:27","date_gmt":"2017-04-07T13:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/?p=2080"},"modified":"2017-04-03T15:38:03","modified_gmt":"2017-04-03T20:38:03","slug":"fact-fridays-evaluating-wikipedia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/fact-fridays-evaluating-wikipedia\/","title":{"rendered":"Fact Fridays – Evaluating Wikipedia"},"content":{"rendered":"

Everyone uses it but maybe you don’t want to admit it. Wikipedia is a great resource for familiarizing yourself with a new topic, and for non-academic purposes it’s great for understanding a new thing. You probably know you can start with Wikipedia, but when working on academic assignments, your research should go beyond and incorporate scholarly sources.<\/p>\n

But maybe you just want to learn about something not related to course work. How do you start to evaluate what you’re reading? Lucky for you, Wikipedia has a great resource on evaluating their articles. Check it out<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Everyone uses it but maybe you don’t want to admit it. Wikipedia is a great resource for familiarizing yourself with a new topic, and for non-academic purposes it’s great for understanding a new thing. You probably know you can start … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":500,"featured_media":2040,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ames-highlights"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/files\/2017\/02\/Fact-Friday-logo.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/500"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2080"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2081,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2080\/revisions\/2081"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}