Wikipedia:Research help/Librarians and Teachers

How should you teach students and patrons to use Wikipedia critically?

Wikipedia is everywhere in how the modern internet user consumes knowledge: it is part of Google Knowledge Graph, Facebook, and countless other parts of the web's knowledge and information sharing infrastructure. Moreover, because its often the first result on a Google search, many members of the public turn there first to solve their information needs.

Yet, we know that many public readers don't know how to use Wikipedia critically: its almost easier to tell your patrons and students not to use it; however, that would be a great disservice to the researchers because of Wikipedia's ubiquity in our internet-mediated age. We created this portal to help provide you resources for teaching your students and patrons how to use Wikipedia more critically, and with an eye for effective research.