Comments on: Week 8

By: goosefeet22

goosefeet22 — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 17:04:29 +0000

You do a really good job of summarizing this section of Verified. I personally appreciated the breakdown of the academic source publishing process, as that was not something I had really known about before. I have used Google Scholar quite a bit in the past, but I don’t know if it has been affected by AI. Like we read about in the beginning of the semester, even academic articles can be hallucinated by AI, and so I stopped using Google Scholar just in case that was happening there. My favorite chapter was about Wikipedia. Like you mention, there are admin and bots there to address most of the issues that arise, which was really great information to learn!

By: LKSOC1004

LKSOC1004 — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 22:43:11 +0000

I loved the section on Wikipedia. It really lays out why Wikipedia isn’t the massive problem that we were led to believe it was. While it certainly had a period where it wasn’t as trustworthy, I really enjoy having it as a resource for lighter researching or initial reading. I was actually able to see the human moderators arguing over a section in an entry I was reading through for the verification quest. There was a timestamped dialogue between moderators who were leaving comments to each other debating the application of the Wikipedia guidelines. It was very interesting to see. Plus, me being able to see that shows that Wikipedia is quite transparent in its practices.

By: abbeys0121

abbeys0121 — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 16:50:07 +0000

Hi! I really like the breakdowns of the readings. I mention this in another comment on another peer’s post, but I really do enjoy seeing a classmate’s perspective and breakdown of our readings. It can sometimes make readings more understandable or point out things that I did not catch in the first read through, which is how I felt for your blog post. I think you did this really well and the structure of your writing is very strong. I would have liked to see you expand on the topic of CSS as much as you did for the other chapters.