Tuesday, September 18, 2012

How a Ragtag Band Created Wikipedia

Learned
  1.  All volunteers
  2.  Funded by donations of the public
  3.  More popular than New York Times
  4. 1 employee - just the software creator
  5. Controversy isn't a big problem because most people agree on neutrality 
  6. Only 18% edits are by anons
Agree
  1.  Neutral policy. Controversial topics should not have an opinion.
  2.  Page History to see the changes to see validity of change and monitor

Disagree
  1. Not being able to use it in academics


Very interesting video! I had no idea about a lot of that.  I use Wikipedia when I don't know something and use it for general knowledge.  I had always been told not to trust it, though, since it is open to the public to edit.  This has altered my previous mindset. 


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