{"id":528,"date":"2007-12-07T18:43:50","date_gmt":"2007-12-07T18:43:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2007\/12\/07\/wales-wikipedia-ok-for-student\/"},"modified":"2007-12-07T18:43:50","modified_gmt":"2007-12-07T18:43:50","slug":"wales-wikipedia-ok-for-student","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/07\/wales-wikipedia-ok-for-student\/","title":{"rendered":"Wales:  Wikipedia OK for Students"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has said teachers who refuse younger students access to the site are &#8220;bad educators&#8221;.Speaking at the Online Information conference at London&#8217;s Olympia, he played down the long-running controversy over the site&#8217;s authority.He said young students should be able to reference the online encyclopaedia in their work.Mr Wales said the site, which is edited by users, should be seen as a &#8220;stepping stone&#8221; to other sources.As long as an article included accurate citations, he said he had &#8220;no problem&#8221; with it being used as a reference for younger students, although academics would &#8220;probably be better off doing their own research&#8221;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/technology\/7130325.stm\">[source]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has said teachers who refuse younger students access to the site are &#8220;bad educators&#8221;.Speaking at the Online Information conference at London&#8217;s Olympia, he played down the long-running controversy over the site&#8217;s authority.He said young students should be able to reference the online encyclopaedia in their work.Mr Wales said the site, which &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/07\/wales-wikipedia-ok-for-student\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wales:  Wikipedia OK for Students<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[147],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-8w","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}