Wikipedia War
By: Ana Jimenez
There has been a lot of controversy over the accuracy of Wikipedia for a long period of time. Some people think that this site isn’t really reliable because of the option users have to be able to edit anything on any article. Others think that Wikipedia is just as useful as Google. There are a lot of different ideas being spread around about Wikipedia. In my opinion, I think that Wikipedia is just as reliable as Google or any other search engine.
One reason why I think that Wikipedia is reliable is because my class decided to conduct an experiment about its reliability. Our class of students all went to different articles on Wikipedia to change little things on each article. Our goal was to figure out how long it would take the company to fix the errors we made. All of us waited and recorded down our data on how long it took them to fix our mistakes. The data we collected showed us that as soon as we made the changes, most of them were corrected in a short amount of time. Some student’s errors were corrected in a two-day period. Nonetheless, most of the mistakes were fixed. This makes me assume that Wikipedia is well monitored or they regularly check for changes made to articles that are incorrect. To me, Wikipedia seems to know when something is being changed and they are there to fix any error.
Another reason why I think that Wikipedia is credible is because
My paper, right now, should at least get a C+.
I have not incorporated sentence structure in my paragraphs, yet.
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