Wikipedia is a non-profit, multilingual, web-based encyclopedia project. It is operated by the Wikimedia Foundation founded in 2001 by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger. One Wikipedia defender answers the question of "How reliable can a source be when anyone can edit it?" by saying that"the problem with Wikipeida is that it only works in practice. In theory, it can never work." The Wikiscanner checks the IP addresses of anonymous editors who may try to vandalize the site through seft-interest. One founder Layy Saner left Wikipedia because he believed that it (Wikipedia) should give more authority to experts. He Created another site Citizendium (which does allow experts to make and update changes to his site). Vandalism/abuse on Wikipedia would be shown by the changes that were made in the article and the changes would not follow with the article itself. The statistics in the article show that there are more than 280 languages with a total of more than eight million articles. Wikipedia is amoung the top 10 most-visited sites on the Internet. This to me shows that is it a very popular site in which to get quick info on just about any topic that anyone needing information or just a starting point on reachering information about a topic. I think Wikipedia is successful because it is a fast and reliable source in which togather information. I think that they will not accept advertising due to not wanting to jumble the information that is given. They want to keep it as clean as possible. Wikiscanner helps to increase the accuracy. It will catch any vandalism and abuse by any user who tries to make harmful changes to the website or article posted.
4 ways to use Wikipedia (never cite it)
I most usually use Wikipedia as a starting point in any paper that I have to write. It gives me a background/starting point about the subject I am writing about. It also gives links and references to look up to get more information on the subject.
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