Wikipedia is a crowdsourced online encyclopedia that is free and open to the public. Wikipedia allows users to add and edit content. For the past 13 years Wikipedia has brought information to millions of knowledge seekers. Wikipedia was officially launched on January 15, 2001 by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger (Sidener, 2004). Now in 2014, Wikipedia has over 30 million articles in 286 languages and has 129,828 active editors (Wikipedia, 2014).
Wikipedia is constantly being updated by their 21 million editors. With such a large volume of information pouring in, inaccuracies do occur. This possibility for wrong information included in the articles has given Wikipedia an infamous reputation of being unreliable. However, the pros of Wikipedia outweigh the cons. While traditional encyclopedias are constantly going out of date, Wikipedia is being continually updated as new information becomes available. Studies suggest that Wikipedia is almost or as reliable as traditional encyclopedias.
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