a. What is Wikipedia?
- Wikipedia is a web-based encyclopedia.
b. How would you answer the question posed in this piece “How reliable can a source be when anyone can edit it?”
- Not very reliable. They could be providing false information.
c. Who do the creators of Wikipedia place their trust in when it comes to weeding out misinformation?
- The article says they depend on the crowd to weed out misinformation
d. Why did founder Larry Sanger leave Wikipedia?
- He believed they should give more authority to experts.
e. What would abuse or vandalism look like on a Wikipedia page?
- Words containing bias or opinions rather than facts.
f. What do the statistics quoted in the third paragraph of this piece reveal?
- Wikipedia is growing all the time
g. Why do you think Wikipedia is so successful?
- It's convenient because everything you want to know about a subject is on one page, other than having to look at several pages to get the information.
h. Why might Wikipedia’s creators not want to accept advertising?
- They want their site to look legitimate and advertising could make it seem like their pages are biased.
i. How does Wikiscanner help increase the reliability of Wikipedia entries?
- It allows the IP address of submitter to be checked. This exposes people putting false, or biased, information.
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