Summary: Credible Information Debate Against Wikipedia

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Credible Information Debate against Wikipedia Sarah Palin July 30, 2012 Credible Information Debate against Wikipedia Hate it or love it, Wikipedia is still one of most accessed and popular websites. At the end of 2011, after approximately a decade of production, Wikipedia supports 3.8 million articles in English and well over twenty million articles in all languages, and it produces and hosts content that four hundreds of millions of readers view each month. (Wikipedia, 2012) “Wikipedia as the fifth or sixth most visited website in the United States, behind Google, Facebook, Yahoo!, YouTube, and, perhaps, eBay. In most countries with unrestricted and developed Internet sectors, Wikipedia ranks among the top ten websites visited by households.” (Greenstein & Feng, May 2012) There have been a number of studies on how reliable…show more content…
Due to the high amount of people having access to the website daily; false and misleading information are often the results, it can also become an easy target for vandalism. Since most articles are “poorly constructed” and the sources are often blurry, Wikipedia is a great place for entertainment purpose rather educational. References Encyclopedia Britannica, E. (March 2006). Fatally Flawed. Refuting the recent study on Encyclopedia accuracy by the Journal Nature, March 2006. Retrieved from http://corporate.britannica.com/britannica_nature_response.pdf Greenstein, S., & Feng, Z. (May 2012). Is Wikipedia Biased? Is Wikipedia Biased?, May 2012(00028282), 1. Retrieved from http://www.aeaweb.org/aer/ Wikipedia, W. (July 2012). Reliability of Wikipedia. Retrieved from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reliability_of_Wikipedia#cite_note-mngrp07-11 Wikipedia. (2012). Wikipedia. Retrieved from http://http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Wikipedia,accessed December

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