The Influence Of Wikipedia

Wikipedia is a collaborative resource, which aims to be a compendium of all human knowledge. In a serious examination of Wikipedia as a credible and valid source of information we need to place our argument within a definable framework. As I will show information has many uses, for the purposes of this paper I will examine the use of Wikipedia for scholarly research, the kind, which I will be utilizing throughout the rest of my MBA program. I will be evaluating Wikipedia based on the parameters set forth by Brenda Spatt. The credentials, Impartiality, style/tone, and currency of Wikipedia will all be examined in this paper (Spatt 2011).

“Questioning Wikipedia” is an excellent series of articles written by author Nick Carr. Carr parses through some of the critical issues facing the website today. The most interesting subject Carr delves into is the debate between “inclusionists” and “deletionists” currently taking place among users of the site. Those who are “inclusionist” believe Wikipedia should publish a wide variety of articles, from pieces on Ernest Hemingway to pieces on cartoon characters from the 1950s. These users do not believe some knowledge is more important than other knowledge. To some individuals, cartoons from past generations are more important than famous American authors. To other people, famous American authors are more important. The value of the content

When students are doing research on the internet, Wikipedia is usually one of the first site to appear. For students, the site is usually tempting to click, but they are quickly reminded by their teachers that Wikipedia should not be used as a site of knowledge. They label the site as inaccurate, unreliable, and uncreditable. In Boyd’s article she writes that teachers consistently tell students to stay clear of Wikipedia at all cost. Students should not have to see the site as tempting. They should be allowed to use it and embrace the site. Wikipedia has so much educational potential and should not be ignored by teachers. Boyd also writes that some analyses have shown that Wikipedia’s content is just as creditable as, if not more reliable than, more traditional resources.

Eventhough, the internet can be helpful with education, it can also be unreliable. However, “The Hive” by Marchall Poe, was the openness of Wikipedia. Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia that anyone can use it. This might work for some people specially that ones who attend school or college. This is very helpful for them because in Wikipedia you can search or find anything you would like. Since anyone can write, or delete or use information off of Wikipedia, it makes it less controversial because anyone can put their input into the website. If don’t agree with something, that’s alright because you can add your own opinion. Poe describes how authors of certain wiki pages write with a bias to support their facts. Facts become opinions when feelings and emotions of bias get involved. “Instead of relying on experts to

Often times, the older generation gives the Internet a bad reputation. There are numerous articles claiming the Internet is generating a doltish society. Nicholas Carr is one of many writers who addresses the topic of our supposed intellectual decline entitled ‘Is the Internet Dumbing Us Down?’ According to Carr and multiple psychologists, the Internet can inhibit cognition. Because these people didn’t grow up with Internet, like the Millennials did, they fear the power of the World Wide Web. Like any great tool, if abused, the Internet can thwart progression. However, in this century, the Internet is an extremely popular and efficacious learning device. I cannot speak on anyone’s behalf but, the Internet was my first teacher, and it continues

In the article “Age of Revolution: Wikipedia: Ok to use?” by Godwin Carter (2015) has written that is the Wikipedia website reasursable to take information from it or not. A lot of internet users are getting to know that they have been working on the Wikipedia to take information from because it has the newest version of the articles or the researches of their articles. Although, this website have massive potential complication is that anyone has been able to editing the information from other sources and see how much the mistakes are made by the non-professional people. Because that anybody should use it carefully and not just to takes any unreliable sources and needs to be focused in the articles which have written by the person who is

Wikipedia is a website that people use as a resource for many reasons. Such as, proving they’re correct in an argument, academic reason, or just for fun. Though the entries on Wikipedia can be created and edited by almost anyone. Therefore, it is a not credible source.

Women in general aren’t drawn to Wikipedia. So men significantly outnumber women on this website. This means that men create most of Wikipedia’s content and Wikipedia has a gender bias. This Gender Bias effects which pages are worked on and improved. Women are perfectly capable of using Wikipedia but they don’t seem to want to. “The Wikipedia Wars” aims to shed light on this issue. It discusses this problem, past attempts to solve it, reasons why these attempts failed, and some new ideas to solve it. This article urgently stresses this problem throughout. How can Hedy Lamar be more valued for her looks than for inventing Wifi? Insane!

Seigenthaler explains to his readers why websites such as Wikipedia, Answers.com, and Reference.com are unreliable sources for information. He also wants to raise the awareness of how Wikipedia works. Wikipedia is designed for individuals to post information whether it is accurate or false. People don’t need any expertise or knowledge to post any kind of information. The author also thinks that some individuals may post false information out of malice. He adopts an angry and frustrated tone in his entire article. This can be seen in his use of the words “sick mind,” “mind-blogging,” “toxic sentences,” “poison- pen intellects,” “irresponsible.” Seigenthaler assumes his readers are unaware of Wikipedia is an unreliable source. In order to appeal

1. Wikipedia helps people find other, more credible sources to cite. They lead people to different and more credible cites and more vast information (Davidson 167). It is also pretty accurate a good amount of the time as well; if does not have many errors and they can and are fixed as soon as they are discovered (Davidson 167).

The Wikipedia-Rorschach controversy has stirred up some debate within the field especially with regards to coaching and exposure of the Rorschach test. For this particular article, the authors examine the websites that discuss the Rorschach test and the Internet users’ reaction to the media coverage (Lindsey et al., 2015). Two studies were conducted to examine the topic and the authors found some interesting findings. In the first study, the authors researched Rorschach related information through a search engine and examined each of the websites to see the test security. Based on the first study, about 44% of the websites they encountered did not have any level of threat to the test security, which could possibly mean that there was very little

It is easy to understand why Wikipedia attracts over one million viewers everyday; not only is the site free; it contains over three million articles (most of which are

Badke (2008) begins his article reminding us that Wikipedia although controversial is still the online encyclopedia of choice by 36% of the United States population according to Pew Internet & American Life Project’s findings. (As quoted by Badke, para. 1)

The Wikipedia is a free, online encyclopedia that lets every individual with Internet connection write and edits its articles. Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger launched their creation in 2001 giving an opportunity to all willing people to work together to develop a common resource of knowledge. Many people have different believes and ideas about Wikipedia, therefore, some tend to think of it as a credible and valid source of information, others strongly disagree. “Since all the books and articles have been chosen for publication, each one has presumably undergone some form of selection and review” (Spatt, 2011, “p.”339-340). Unfortunately, this statement is simply not enough to

Wiki is an editable, easy running program, that can be navigated by the least computer challenged individuals and contain massive amounts of information. Ward Cunningham stated, “The simplest online database that could possibly work.” Ward Cunningham is known as the father of Wiki. In 1995 he and Bo Leuf designed WikiWikiWeb, the first wiki, to be an open, collaborative community Website where anyone can contribute. This philosophy has proven true as there are many wiki’s to this day on the web. Wiki can be described as interlinked web pages that are freely expandable using a hypertext system. This system is modifying and storing information. Conveniently each page is editable by