Wikipedia Questions

a. What is Wikipedia? 

Wikipedia is a multilingual, Web-based encyclopedia project, operated by the Wikimedia Foundation, a nonprofit organization.

b. How would you answer the question posed in this piece “How reliable can a source be when anyone can edit it?”

I feel as if sights that you can edit are not very reliable, because any one can sign on and change things. 

 c. Who do the creators of Wikipedia place their trust in when it comes to weeding out misinformation? 

"Wisdom of Crowds"

d. Why did founder Larry Sanger leave Wikipedia? 

He believed that it should give more authority to experts.

e. What would abuse or vandalism look like on a Wikipedia page? 

Changing a person's bibliography to mean and nasty things. 

f. What do the statistics quoted in the third paragraph of this piece reveal? 

That there are many Wikipedia articles out there and how can every single one of them be monitored correctly. 

g. Why do you think Wikipedia is so successful? 

I believe it is so successful because some people are not aware of the site and how it is not 100% true, so they use them. 

h. Why might Wikipedia’s creators not want to accept advertising? 

Maybe, because then if someone is advertising on the page they might ask them to change things on it. 

i. How does Wikiscanner help increase the reliability of Wikipedia entries?

It shows who is trying to edit things and what they are editing.