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dhayes22's Review of Wikipedia www.wikipedia.org

28th Sep 2009

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5 stars

    I can and do spend vast portions of my life on Wikipedia. It may not be healthy or indeed what I am learning may not be 100% factual but it's fun, entertaining and addictive.

    I tend to leave my laptop on if I am watching television or reading a book and if I come across any themes I want to know more about which is oh, about 50 times a day, I dive in to get the background. The data is easy to find and you tend to get a clean, concise background in two minutes or less. They way they link articles is smart because if you want to drill even deeper into a subject you seemingly can forever.

    Indeed sometimes I jump in and end up so engrossed I forget what I was doing beforehand. I find it particularly useful for historical research - especially when you are watching something like a movie or historical TV series and you want to separate the fact from the fiction.

    I have done this is the last week alone watching The Tudors, Last Chance to See, Kingdom of Heaven, Stephen King's The Shawshank Redemption and also reading a book about Noetics (Dan Brown - don't ask). I also researched the history of tea and the Wispa bar the other night! Sad I know...

    I know there has been some controversy about some topics such as the second world war and American politics but if you stay away from the really contentious stuff you generally get content written by well informed contributors who know what they are talking about. And the standardised layout is fantastic because once you get used to it it's super easy to skim articles.

    This is exactly what the internet was made for and world is a better and more fact-filled place because of it!

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