Wikipedia is celebrating its 7th anniversary online today, according to Wired. Here’s a link to Wikipedia’s article on the site’s history.
I’ve written about Wikipedia’s reliability and authority before, and most of these articles can be found under this blog’s wikipedia tag. Here are three of the better examples:
- 7 December 2007: Wikipedia co-founder recasts his advice
- 24 November 2007: Citing Wikipedia
- 7 March 2007: Fake professor stops editing on Wikipedia
One issue I haven’t mentioned is how some commercial web sites like answers.com and reference.com repost the content of Wikipedia articles. John Seigenthaler learned about this practice the hard way in 2005, when a Wikipedia article about him was fact-checked.
Tags: authority, history, reliability, research, student, Wikipedia, writing
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