Comment on Wikipedia urges AI companies to use its paid API, and stop scraping

• quick_snail@feddit.nl ⁨31⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  You’re supposed to reference the articles that Wikipedia references, not Wikipedia itself

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• Revan343@lemmy.ca ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Which is ridiculous, everybody knows that you should be banned from referencing Wikipedia as a source because an encyclopedia is not a source

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  • arcterus@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Uh, it’s a tertiary source. It’s still a source, just not one you should be directly citing. They’re great for finding other sources though.

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    • Aneb@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I got a F for plagiarism when I looked up the wiki and dived deeper into the sources and tried to incorporate the ideas and not trying to copy word for word. Apparently 65% was flagged as direct plagiarism from Wiki when I used the sources to write my essay. I was in 6th grade

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    • Revan343@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      If we’re being pedantic, yeah, but ‘source’ without qualifiers to me would refer to the one you’d cite. Wikipedia is great for finding general information, and then as you say, finding the source for that information (and also generally a lot more depth to the summary that’s on Wiki).

      Tl;dr use Wiki, don’t cite Wiki

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