Wikipedia

Activity #1

a. What is Wikipedia? 
    Wikipedia iis a multilingual, Web-based encyclopedia project. 


b. How would you answer the question posed in this piece “How reliable can a source be when anyone can edit it?”?   
    I would anwser by stating that there are consitantly voulnteers monitoring the page and watching for false information on the articl 

 
c. Who do the creators of Wikipedia place their trust in when it comes to weeding out misinformation?
     The place ther wisdom among th crowd of user to make sure information is right or correct false information. 
 
 
d. Why did founder Larry Sanger leave Wikipedia?
       He left believing that it should give more authority to experts; he has since created another site.

 

e. What would abuse or vandalism look like on a Wikipedia page?
         I would say they would very diffcult to tell because these are major issues in todays world and would be edited a lot by the users of the cite.


f. What do the statistics quoted in the third paragraph of this piece reveal?
        That wikipedia is among the top 10 site onthe web most due to google listing its result fisrt.


g. Why do you think Wikipedia is so successful?
       Yes, I believe that wikipedia has become very suceesful with what is has been created to do.



h. Why might Wikipedia’s creators not want to accept advertising?
        They want to be seen as a non-profit company which they are and don't want other to mistake them for using money made to advertise with.



i. How does Wikiscanner help increase the reliability of Wikipedia entries?
             The scanner quick looks over any new edit to point unrelvert information to the article.  

Activity #2

 

Response:     I have never used much of wikipedia due to fact most of my teachers in high school said teh inforamtion was fasle and no good. However I have used it to lead to many site that i could use and cite in a paper. I feel that wikipedia is a trust worhtly site to use if you know how to look for false information and not use it. Teachers in general need to learn that wikipedia is not as false as it has been made out to be and that is actually a really good site to use.