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What's Wrong with Wikipedia?
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WSJ What’s Wrong With Wikipedia?
 
collaborative: to work together
integrating: to bring together or incorporate parts into a whole
consensus: majority of opinion; general agreement
 
Wikipedia, the popular online encyclopedia, was founded eight years ago with the idea of providing everyone in the world free access to “the sum of all human knowledge.” But vandals and spammers have had other ideas, forcing Wikipedia’s operators to re-think how the site works.
 
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  1. Go to http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0,,sid9_gci967853,00.html (for these two questions only).   What is Wikipedia? What do critics say about Wikipedia?
 
  1. Read the article “What’s Wrong with Wikipedia?” in the January 2010 The Wall Street Journal student edition.
 
  1. What is crowdsourcing? 
 
  1. What do vandals and spammers try to do to Wikipedia?
 
  1. Pick two well-known people and use a primary source, such as a personal or official Web site or a standard encyclopedia, to list 10 facts about each person. 
 
  1. Then look up each person’s Wikipedia entry. 
 
  1. Did your Wikipedia search result in accurate information? Discuss your findings. 
 
 

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