In the article, Can WIKIPEDIA Ever Make the Grade?, the author begins this section by describing Mr. Halavais's actions against Wikipedia. The professor went onto this online encyclopedia under a false name and entered in inaccurate information on various websites to check the very popular information site's credibility. Within three hours of his different postings, every single one of his fallacies were deleted from the site by Wikipedia's quick and accurate editors.
However, some experts still find Wikipedia offensive since they do not allow anyone to have priority, which many scholars feel they should receive. False information is still leaking out and Wikipedia is doing everything they can to prevent these instances from reoccurring. The co-founder insists that the satisfaction behind Wikipedia is not based on growth but instead on quality for the information provided and now many professors are starting to contribute their knowledge to the website's growth.
To fully judge the accuracy of Wikipedia, the journal Nature decided to compare some of it's scientific articles to that of Encyclopaedia Britannica. After careful review, they found that the two sources were hand-in-hand on their information, that Wikipedia was infact reliable. However, Wikipedia is more directed to the studies of the sciences versus humanities and some believe that the information is biasedly directed towards those studies.
When graded, the site ranged from an A to a C, based on who was doing the evaluation and on what topic, but all agreed that there was definite room for improvement. Hopefully the majority of the mistakes that are throughout the online encyclopedia will be caught and corrected to increase the reputation of this incredibly easy to access information site since Wikipedia is the first place many students, like myself, visit.
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