I use wikipedia with a vengenance. Possibly more than I use google for that sort of info gathering.
Stop that right now! I can hear the smacking!
Giles ,'Never Leave Me'
Natter 39 and Holding
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Kat - Oct 10, 2005 6:20:54 pm PDT #5080 of 10002
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
dw - Oct 10, 2005 6:25:59 pm PDT #5081 of 10002
Silence means security silence means approval
Actually, Johnson did the emergency relief thing in the playoffs before, back when he was with Seattle. He came in in extra innings to win a division series against the Yankees. Very dramatic.
And it forever fixed ED-GAAAR into the Northwest lexicon.
Later that year came the Seinfeld where they think George died, and when Steinbrenner is trying to break it to the Costanzas, George's father responds, "Why did you trade Jay Buhner?"
§ ita § - Oct 10, 2005 6:26:48 pm PDT #5082 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Wikipedia rocks. I don't use it as a final source, but it's great for browsing and illuminating.
IMDB coulda been a wiki, couldn't it?
Emily - Oct 10, 2005 6:28:36 pm PDT #5083 of 10002
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
I tend to end up consulting it for math questions fairly often.
(Wikipedia. Not IMDB. Cause that'd be kind of strange.)
Kat - Oct 10, 2005 6:31:29 pm PDT #5084 of 10002
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
I don't use it as a final source,
I use it as a beginning source though. It's been super helpful for my dante stuff.
§ ita § - Oct 10, 2005 6:35:59 pm PDT #5085 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I use it as a middle source. I still google first, scan the first page or so of hits to get a sense of the web out there, and then if it's something I can distill to a term I click on the definition highlight top right, read the dictionary, etc entries, and then usually use the wikipedia entry on that page as a starting point. From there, to be sure, I hit up Encyclopaedia Britannica or some similar pro source, if I need more than an understanding or perspective.
Kat - Oct 10, 2005 6:37:33 pm PDT #5086 of 10002
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
I love various researching techniques!
I start with wikipedia as general overview and to see what links they have. Once i get a handle on what I'm looking for, I google with more specificity, and in the case of Dante, do the academic google.
Jesse - Oct 10, 2005 6:39:39 pm PDT #5087 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I apparently am uninterested in actual knowledge. I only like factoids. Anyway, I use wikipedia once in a while, when I think of it.
For school I use paid databases.
Kate P. - Oct 10, 2005 6:43:27 pm PDT #5088 of 10002
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
t taking notes for class on Reference & Information Services
§ ita § - Oct 10, 2005 6:44:34 pm PDT #5089 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I have access to Books 24x7 through work, and rarely remember to use the damned thing. Text of actual books, and I'd rather google and surf. I don't think digitising books works for me -- I'm better off in something that was created ground up for the web.
I apparently am uninterested in actual knowledge [...] For school [...]
Hmm.