Wikipedia

Since its creation in “2001,” Wikipedia has grown to be the “largest and most popular general reference work on the internet” (Wikipedia). According to Alexa, a company owned by Amazon which collects and distributes statistics on website traffic, Wikipedia is currently the “[sixth]” most popular website in the United States, and the “[fifth]” most popular website worldwide (wikipedia.org Traffic Statistics). However, there are several groups of people who argue that Wikipedia’s collaborative emphasis

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) Even if the public likes it, though, for the most part academic circles do not. Many professors will not allow their students to use Wikipedia. These professors think Wikipedia is trivial, untrustworthy, insulting, and too often completely incorrect

Wikipedia and its Credibility Wikipedia and its Credibility 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

Wikipedia, throughout formal education, is often not seen as a credible source through the eyes of many professors and scholars. The idea behind Wikipedia is that the members of the general public can add their own personal knowledge, anonymously or not. The freedom of allowing this can be both beneficial and detrimental to how citizens consume accurate information within a society. The information that citizens of a democracy consume correlates directly with civic engagement and participation. Through

Wikipedia offers limited information about my new hometown, Virginia Beach, seems accurately informative. Because the article originates from Wikipedia my expectations were lowered because of its low credibility among scholars, professors, and students alike. However, I want to point out, a professor from another class relies on Wikipedia articles for certain topic. Consequently, I refer to Wikipedia whenever I desire to gain a general overview about a difficult topic or concept before conducting

The first observation noted that there’s an issue with the Wikipedia site is their home web page. The home page of the online encyclopedia has a welcome page that boasts, “Welcome to Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit” (Wikipedia, 2015). This method is in opposition of what I would deem highly credible. Anyone could be an Eight-year-old or a person that is mentally ill. In my opinion, the open editing system is the strength and the weakness of the website. There is the chance that

What is one of the most common Wikipedia mistakes. Well, it is something that might surprise most people. For example, you are a well-known politician and decide to write a brief article or biography on your rise to fame. Perhaps, you are a local athlete filled with pride about your accomplishments. Of course, you could have a new start up online and are trying to promote the business through writing an article for Wikipedia. Is this a good idea? The fact is that there is just no way that this could

I. Introduction Wikipedia is a free online encyclopedia that provides collaborative modification of its content and structure directly from the web browser who is known as Wikipedians. Everyone can create an essay or article for publication after registration on the site. However, It is no need to register before editing essays or articles. Thousands of changes can be made every day due to constantly changing edited by many people. A new set of challenges have been raised for educators and students

Wikipedia is a free-access, free-content Internet encyclopedia, supported and hosted by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation. Those who can access the site can edit most of its articles. Wikipedia is ranked among the ten most popular websites, Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger launched Wikipedia on January 15, 2001. Sanger a portmanteau of wiki and encyclopedia. Initially only in English, Wikipedia quickly became multilingual as it developed similar versions in other languages, which differ in content

It is an age of the online encyclopedia. Wikipedia, the largest online encyclopedia in today's world, has already changed the way people access information to some extent. The online encyclopedia is not only just the digital edition of traditional encyclopedia but also every user of it can contribute materials (Murgia). This collaborative modification feature of Wikipedia has already been widely accepted by many people. Every month, Wikipedia has more than 18 billion page views on average and nearly