[Taxacom] FW: Wikipedia classification

Thomas G. Lammers lammers at uwosh.edu
Thu Jul 2 09:47:46 CDT 2009


At 03:06 AM 7/2/2009, dipteryx at freeler.nl wrote:
>We get back to a question raised in earlier TAXACOM discussions: who will 
>use which online resources, and for what purposes?

Students assigned research papers for course work are big users in my 
experience.  If I assign them to select an angiosperm family and gather 
info on it, much of what I get is derived from Wikipedia and similar sources.


Thomas G. Lammers
Department of Biology and Microbiology
University of Wisconsin Oshkosh
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