a. What is
Wikipedia? Wikipedia is a multilingual, Web-based encyclopedia project,
operated by the Wikimedia Foundation, a nonprofit organization.
b. How would you answer the question posed in this piece “How reliable can a source be when anyone can edit it?”?
c. Who do the creators of Wikipedia place their trust in when it comes to weeding out misinformation? In the “wisdom of crowds,” believing that by having many people watching what appears there, errors and vandalism will be weeded out, sooner rather than later.
d. Why did founder Larry Sanger leave Wikipedia? Mr. Sanger left Wikipedia, believing that it should give more authority to experts; he has since created another site, Citizendium that does just that.
e. What would abuse or vandalism look like on a Wikipedia page? Mainly in the form of the wrong information.
f. What do the statistics quoted in the third paragraph of this piece reveal? That Wikipedia has become increasingly popular.
g. Why do you think Wikipedia is so successful? Because for the most part it is reliable and easy to access.
h. Why might Wikipedia’s creators not want to accept advertising? Accepting advertising my bias some of the information on the company providing the advertising, thus breaking their own strict neutrality laws.
i. How does Wikiscanner help increase the reliability of Wikipedia entries? Because it runs a check on the anonymous editor who can alter a Wiki page.
b. How would you answer the question posed in this piece “How reliable can a source be when anyone can edit it?”?
c. Who do the creators of Wikipedia place their trust in when it comes to weeding out misinformation? In the “wisdom of crowds,” believing that by having many people watching what appears there, errors and vandalism will be weeded out, sooner rather than later.
d. Why did founder Larry Sanger leave Wikipedia? Mr. Sanger left Wikipedia, believing that it should give more authority to experts; he has since created another site, Citizendium that does just that.
e. What would abuse or vandalism look like on a Wikipedia page? Mainly in the form of the wrong information.
f. What do the statistics quoted in the third paragraph of this piece reveal? That Wikipedia has become increasingly popular.
g. Why do you think Wikipedia is so successful? Because for the most part it is reliable and easy to access.
h. Why might Wikipedia’s creators not want to accept advertising? Accepting advertising my bias some of the information on the company providing the advertising, thus breaking their own strict neutrality laws.
i. How does Wikiscanner help increase the reliability of Wikipedia entries? Because it runs a check on the anonymous editor who can alter a Wiki page.
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