Wikipedia

What is Wikipedia?
- Wikipedia is a an internet encyclopedia founded by a non profit organization.

How reliable can a source be when anyone can edit it?
- Many people are on their servers daily looking for errors and vandalism.

Who do the creators of Wikipedia place their trust in when it comes to weeding out misinformation?
- They place their trust in the "wisdom of the crowds"

Why did founder Larry Sanger leave?
- He believed that the site should give more authority to experts.

What would abuse or vandalism look like on a Wikipedia page?
- Wikipedia has a source that can check the authenticity of web addresses to see if the editing was done by a company/organization or government that may be benefiting themselves by self editing.

What do the statistics quoted in the third paragraph of this piece reveal?
- Wikipedia is on the very tip top of the research list. Everyone goes to their address to get their needed information.

Why do you think Wikipedia is so successful.
- Wikipedia has an abundance of information about thousands of different topics. All the information is set up in a very easy to understand way and there are very helpful links associated with each topic.

Why might Wikipedias creator not want two accept advertising?
- If they accepted advertising from companies they would be connected to them.

How does Wikiscanner help increase the reliability of Wikipedia entries?
- It means that all the IP addresses that are not credible are checked out to make sure that all the info is correct and unbiased.


I searched pugs. The page doesnt have any clean up banners. This article is organized very well and is very well written and informative. There are several references linked to the important parts of the article. All the information i could think about be associated with pugs (health problem, history, description and even how they are used in the media is included.

Reliable Referances:
1. AKC.org
2. puginformation.org
3. ownedbypugs.com

Possible Unreliable Sources
1. dogchannel.com
2. barkbites.com

The article is rated GA and there are no discussions around the article. I rate this article reliable because there are several credible sources associated with the information. All the information matches information from other websites and all the pictures are from credible sources.