Why trust Wikipedia
Wikipedia is known worldwide for its free, anonymously edited entries.
But, is it reliable? The question has stood for a long time. Professors from all over have said that Wikipedia is not reliable, and some have even restricted the use of it from their students. Depending on the case, Wikipedia has good qualities and bad ones. Just about anyone can edit an entry on the website if they please. Although, Wikipedia has unpaid yet passionate editors that will decline entries or edits that they feel the need to, but, even with these editors, Wikipedia has slipped up. Wikipedia has had hoaxes, bad written entries, etc. Wikipedia is free and they do the best they can of it.
The bad parts of Wikipedia overrule the good parts. …show more content…
This website is free and is used worldwide with over thirty-million articles in over two-hundred languages. With that being said, it can get hard for the editors who are just volunteering to check every single article. It is expected that the website will have some mistakes. Still, with that many articles there is information galore for anyone to use, but, despite the bad editing that people look down upon, within the past decade Wikipedia has started to look out for itself harder and harder. The website does take precautionary measures to help defend itself from having a hoax or misinformation on it again, “Wikipedia is constantly being updated” (Hudson “Stop Wikipedia Shaming” 2014). This constant updating of the website puts their non-paid editors to work and they all make sure there isn't a mistake in some articles. Lately, the editors have been faster on checking the articles posted anonymously and the accusation that anyone can post whatever on Wikipedia isn't fully true anymore. People can still post what they want, but there isn't as good as a chance that it will stay unlike times before; “Wikipedia also has the Wikimedia Foundation behind it actively looking for ways to improve the information on the site, as well as an entire process of editorial control. The days of “you can write anything you want on Wikipedia” are long gone.” (Hudson “Stop Shaming Wikipedia” 2014)
Wikipedia is known worldwide for its free, anonymously edited entries.
But, is it reliable? The question has stood for a long time. Professors from all over have said that Wikipedia is not reliable, and some have even restricted the use of it from their students. Depending on the case, Wikipedia has good qualities and bad ones. Just about anyone can edit an entry on the website if they please. Although, Wikipedia has unpaid yet passionate editors that will decline entries or edits that they feel the need to, but, even with these editors, Wikipedia has slipped up. Wikipedia has had hoaxes, bad written entries, etc. Wikipedia is free and they do the best they can of it.
The bad parts of Wikipedia overrule the good parts. …show more content…
This website is free and is used worldwide with over thirty-million articles in over two-hundred languages. With that being said, it can get hard for the editors who are just volunteering to check every single article. It is expected that the website will have some mistakes. Still, with that many articles there is information galore for anyone to use, but, despite the bad editing that people look down upon, within the past decade Wikipedia has started to look out for itself harder and harder. The website does take precautionary measures to help defend itself from having a hoax or misinformation on it again, “Wikipedia is constantly being updated” (Hudson “Stop Wikipedia Shaming” 2014). This constant updating of the website puts their non-paid editors to work and they all make sure there isn't a mistake in some articles. Lately, the editors have been faster on checking the articles posted anonymously and the accusation that anyone can post whatever on Wikipedia isn't fully true anymore. People can still post what they want, but there isn't as good as a chance that it will stay unlike times before; “Wikipedia also has the Wikimedia Foundation behind it actively looking for ways to improve the information on the site, as well as an entire process of editorial control. The days of “you can write anything you want on Wikipedia” are long gone.” (Hudson “Stop Shaming Wikipedia” 2014)