1. What is Wikipedia?
Wikipedia is a online encyclopedia.
2. How would you answer the question posed in this piece "How reliable can a source be when anyone can edit it"?
Any sources reliability should be questioned so I see this source as being as reliable as any other.
3. Who do the creators of Wikipedia place their trust in when it comes to weeding out misinformation?
They depend on anyone using the site to weed out misinformation.
4. Why did founder Larry Sanger leave Wikipedia?
He believed it should give more authority to experts.
5. What would abuse or vandalism look like on a Wikipedia page?
It would be editing done by a government or business that would be for their own interest and could be very biased.
6. What do the statistics quoted in the third paragraph of this piece reveal?
That a lot of people use this site for their research and to post information on.
7. Why do you think Wikipedia is so successful?
I think Wikipedia is so successful because of how easy it is to use.
8. Why might Wikipedia's creators not want to accept advertising?
I think they don't want to accept advertising because if they did it might appear that they are biased for certain companies.
9. How does Wikiscanner help increase the reliability of Wikipedia entries?
It allowed them to check the IP address of anonymous editors exposing governments and companies that were editing for self interest.
wiki wiki wiki has become the new lazy lazy lazy. I agree with your statement about ease of use and that is why I call wiki lazy. I remember a time when research was done book by book and catalog index. With all the resources available today and the ability to have instant results it is the lazy factor that keeps wiki going, but there is also the money factor. Wiki is free and so aren't many .edu and .org sites, but sites like those available through MARLO and other library sites cost the user. If you are engaged in research where the upmost credibilty is necessary then you have to be able to trust the data you retrive and the only way you can ensure that is by only trusting peer reviewed data, and that may cost you a few well spent dollars. Good post on the wiki???'s
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