* suzmccarth [2005-10-05 22:31]:

> Schools concentrate on teaching children not to copy verbatim from
> the internet and not to quote any text without both an identifiable
> author, and publisher. This makes wikipedia problematic for schools.
> We simply cannot accept it unless an author can be found.

[...]

I like these goals, and I agree that teaching typing should be extremely
low priority for schools (although they should probably try to tech
nice handwriting - mine didn't, and sometimes after all those years I
look to others' handwriting with envy). But I don't think Wikipedia
presents such a problem in this area: The author can be simply
"Wikipedia contributors", and the publisher "Wikipedia". See this page
for more suggestions:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_Wikipedia

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