COMM 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Encyclopædia Britannica, Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia In Culture
4 Dec 2018
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Wikipedia: founded in 2001 by a group of web entrepreneurs led by economist jimmy wales and epistemological lawrence sanger. By 2015, wikipedia had over 4. 7 million articles in english, and 34 million in other languages (according to wikipedia, lol) Origins of wiki software the idea was that a wiki could be a quick and simple way for many people ro make changes on a webpage. Other approaches to creating a common record have sprung up in the wake of wikipedia, for example, wiki-map sites, political wikis, health wikis, cookbooks, game wikis. There are also collaborative sites where musicians in different locations can record separate tracks to a along that can then be put together in one place. The question of accuracy comes up frequently with wikipedia. One 2005 study asked experts to review articles in both wikipedia and. Wikipedia had 32% more errors or omissions (giles, 2005) Wikiality: when money determines wikipedia entries, reality becomes a commodity.
