Thoughts on Wikipedia as a source/place for information?

[broken vault]

Can be math related, political, whatever is interesting for you

[main glacier]

Good source of information to get an overview on any topic

[eager valve]

i put 100% faith into wikipedia and so it will be an international emergency if there is any untruth anywhere on the website

[fallow sandal]

Get your info from a credible source

Anybody can put anything on wikipedia

[gloomy sedge]

Name some credible source

[fallow sandal]

MIT OpenCourseWare is good for free math content (and countless other subjects besides math) (although you'll typically need some kind of textbook),

OpenStax (initiative of Rice University, their books written by college professors and some high school math teachers),

Any kind of textbook or book in general written by a professor, like Calculus by James Stewart (super well known textbook, one of the best), or Introduction to Linear Algebra sixth edition by Professor Gilbert Strang (also widely known and used)

That's kinda a summary of who/what you wanna be looking for

[broken vault]

I've used MIT OCW for things like introductions to complex analysis and signal analysis before reading more in depth about them

It's not bad, but definitely hit or miss depending on topic

[fallow sandal]

Agreed

[broken vault]

Safe to say, I wouldn't use it as a primary source, probably just a secondary sourcing for a primary source like a book

[stable quartz]

good

[stable quartz]

everyone says wikipedia is bad but then they see wiki fandom and uh... yeah...

[grave harbor]

sufficient for anything stem related.

Well, assuming you have an eye for spotting trivial errors or enough mathematical maturity to not misunderstand things when it isn't explained like you are five

[broken vault]

Hey! I haven’t seen you around… did you change your username or something? I checked I guess you haven’t been so active when I got mod.

[dusky latch]

I keep trying to edit the page for Coneheads to imply that it was based on Mark Andreessen's weird fucking head.

They keep reverting my edits.

[primal flower]

maybe Stack Exchange or MO would be a liable source?

[broken vault]

Tragic