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This article in-tells a response to articles that discuss the authorship of the infamous online fact finder, Wikipedia.

Wikipedia is a free online encyclopedia, owned by the Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit organization. The site aims to allow internet users to have access to a multi facet of…

Wikipedia’s Bad Rep

It would not be absurd to say that everyone reading this article, have used Wikipedia as a reference at one point or another. The usefulness, quickness, and accuracy of Wikipedia is incredibly suitable for everyday life. I asked three of my suite mates at Wake Forest University if they…

Wikipedia is Only as Good as its Authors

Wikipedia is a sprawling, cavernous wellspring of information, both good and bad. When I think of good or bad on Wikipedia, I tend to think in terms of slight bias versus heavy bias. That leads us to the question: who writes/edits Wikipedia articles? A…

Don’t Panic it’s Wikipedia

Wikipedia as a source of casual knowledge may be helpful, but when it comes down to the facts and nitty-gritty details there are major problems and your professors are right.

So you’d think that Wikipedia is curated and created on a gigantic collective…

Read me if you’ve ever used Wikipedia

You’re sitting at a prestigious dinner. So far, you’ve been able to keep up with your colleagues and their intellectual table conversation. When all of a sudden, the ‘too smart for his own good’ guy across from you brings up a topic that you know absolutely…

The Inner-workings of Wikipedia

I think I can speak for a great deal of students of all grade levels when I say that the only thing we remember hearing from our teachers more than “when you get to college, you’ll have twice as much homework” is that you can’t use Wikipedia for projects. “Anyone can edit…

The Minds Behind Wikipedia

In today’s society, everyone uses Wikipedia at some point or another. Some of us use it for a basic understanding of something we have just heard of or learned about, others will rely on it to be the main source for their biggest report of the year. Many of us have never considered…

Who Writes Wikipedia? Should We Become One of Them?

“In your assignment, do not use Wikipedia as your sources, not even take a look at it.” Every time when my high school teachers assigned projects that included possible web search, they would emphasize Wikipedia is not the site you would…

The Writers of Wikipedia

Who actually writes the vast sea of knowledge that is Wikipedia?