Week 7 - Response to content: Wikipedia is great!

Is Wikipedia useful? As a 100% reliable source the answer is no. But as a guiding tool and to get you basic information about certain things the answer is 100% yes!

Wiki will be the real deal in the future

Wikipedia is the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit.(link1) During the start of Wikipedia in the early 2000s a lot of false information was posted. But as Wikipedia grew bigger and stronger, as a part of the system, so did the security. Providing false information on well known people, famous occasions or happenings is much more difficult to do now than it used to be. This factors in that the bigger a company or an idea gets the more difficult it is to destroy or manipulate.
If you want to edit something on Wikipedia you have to go through their staff and almost 90% of the time they will reject your edit, (link2) unless it's helpful for the subject that you want to change. Because of the new restrictions it helps to build up more credibility for Wikipedia. Also on Wikipedia is a grade system for how reliable the information, about a certain incident or character, really is. There are also a grade system for the amount of indept information that is provided.

Wikipedia will always get you started but the bigger and stronger it gets it won't be long until Wikipedia will be all you need when looking for journal articles and reliable resources.


References listed first-last:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia (of COURSE)
http://www.melvinblog.com/2008/11/thought-hard-edit-wikipedia/