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Note To Parents
I hope that you will find this book informative. Its intention to provide a guide for parents on how to make the most out of Wikipedia for school projects, and how to setup your home computer to keep your children safe.

Using Wikipedia For School Projects
Wikipedia has a lot of useful information. Some of the information is just for fun: Smallville TV Series. While others are informative: elephant. But the main question is how can your student use Wikipedia for school projects.

Wikipedia is comprised of editors from around the world. This has its advantages and its disadvantages. The advantage is the pure volume of articles that one finds in Wikipedia. There are over 1 million articles compared to 144,000 in Britannica. But the disadvantage is, "Who are the editors?" They could be anyone. That means that there is no quality of standards. Some articles may be excellent and every fact is 100% accurate with references. But other times, the article may not be well written, the topic incomplete, and the facts inaccurate. Even from one day to the next, the quality of the articles can vary.