How a
Ragtag band created Wikipedia
Three things I learned:
·
Two million total articles only 600,000+ are in English.
Only around 1/3 of the traffic are English visitors.
·
Only one employee, lead software developer, the
rest are volunteers.
·
Only about 18% of the edits are done anonymously.
Two things I agreed with:
·
Wikipedia should be neutral in controversial
issues.
·
Freely licensed textbooks are the next big thing
in education.
One thing I disagreed with:
·
I don’t know of anything I disagreed with.
Wikipedia
Pretty Accurate But Hard to Read
I found this article surprising because I often find the
information on Wikipedia to be much easier to understand. It is for this reason
I go there when I need a good starting point when writing a paper.
How
often do I use Wikipedia to write papers, in the ways described in 4 Ways to
Use Wikipedia Never Cite IT
I fall in a category somewhere between always and sometimes when
using Wikipedia in the ways described. However, I have never cited Wikipedia as
a source of reference.
Wikipedia
Reliability Worksheet
1.
There aren’t any cleanup banners to indicate
problems.
2.
I read through the article and it seems to meet
the requirements.
3.
There are many references and for the most part
they seem reliable.
4.
The only rating I found is the article could be
improved to at least a B rating by following eleven easy steps. The issues
being discussed are terminology and citations.
5.
I rate this article partially reliable because there
were no cleanup banners and there were many references, but there was still
room for improvements after looking at the discussion topics.
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