Another Place I do Financial Research: History and Use of Wikipedia
I recommend reading this New Yorker article on Wikipedia by Stacy Schiff, "Can Wikipedia Conquer Expertise". I think this provides the best history and background for how Wikipedia got going and what it is that I have seen. I find myself using Wikipedia to research financial topics. I also use it in my blog and emails to refer non-financial readers to explanations for various financial terms and instruments. When I closely check the Wikipedia entries I recommend, I have yet to fail to find it thorough and accurate on financial terms.
I was going to write an entry myself on where Wikipedia can break down on fact checking*. But I found a better article than I would have written here: blog entry at Freedom to Tinker.
Wikipedia is a non-profit and supported by donations. I think I'll send them a donation right now.
* Wikipedia entry on fact checking
I was going to write an entry myself on where Wikipedia can break down on fact checking*. But I found a better article than I would have written here: blog entry at Freedom to Tinker.
Wikipedia is a non-profit and supported by donations. I think I'll send them a donation right now.
* Wikipedia entry on fact checking
Along the same lines? I'll do medical literature searches and find as much useful content using Google or Dogpile as I do on Medline.
After all, not all journals are indexed. A bonus is that sometimes you can get free pdfs of older articles from an author's online resume, something Medline just can't do.
And my use of Wiki? It's a secret weapon for this engineer: if you haven't kept up on the latest integrated circuit layout tools and techniques, and you have to go to a meeting with a bunch of IC designers, 15min with Wiki before the meeting allows you to actually follow along with their conversation.
I'm not convinced that knowledge alone is power, but Wiki makes it certainly more easily accessible and accurate than it's ever been.
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