Wikipedia

a.   a)  What is Wikipedia? 

Wikipedia is a multilingual, Web-based encyclopedia project, operated by the Wikimedia Foundation, a nonprofit organization."

b.    b)How would you answer the question posed in this piece “How reliable can a source be when anyone can edit it?”? 

I would say that it is reliable because they have people looking a millions of pages a month to make sure information is correct.

c.   c)  Who do the creators of Wikipedia place their trust in when it comes to weeding out misinformation? 

“Wisdom of the crowd”

d.    d)Why did founder Larry Sanger leave Wikipedia? 

He believed it gave more opportunities to expert more than himself.

e.    e) What would abuse or vandalism look like on a Wikipedia page? 

The information would be flagged.

f.    f) What do the statistics quoted in the third paragraph of this piece reveal? 

In September, the English Wikipedia published article No. 2,000,000; there are currently Wikipedias in more than 280 languages, with a total of more than eight million articles.

g.    g)Why do you think Wikipedia is so successful? 

I believe it is so successful because everyday people post information so its easy to understand.

h.     h)Why might Wikipedia’s creators not want to accept advertising? 

Because they don’t want to seem bias against some companies

  i) How does Wikiscanner help increase the reliability of Wikipedia entries?

“It quickly exposed examples of self-interested editing by prominent businesses and governments around the world. Wikipedia's leaders hailed the device as another check on abuse at the site, even if it produced some embarrassing headlines for a time.”