WK 2.1 Why do you think Wikipedia is becoming more accepted? - Hanane Ben Abdeslam

Over the past ten years, Wikipedia has made an increasingly revolution in web history. It is now the biggest source of knowledge on the internet. Competitors like Brittanica have almost disappeared, just like the printed versions of encyclopedias. Wikipedia is known as an open source for volunteers who can edit articles on Wiki to spread their knowledge, and information to other people. Open source can be defined as the free and open creation to show your work. Furthermore, it is also important to know that Wikipedia is a foundation and therefore has no profit motive. This is very important in order to secure contributions from people. If it wasn’t a foundation, people may be less likely to contribute to Wikipedia, because nobody wants a company to make money using their free subscription fees. However, because it is an open source, it is difficult to guarantee the quality of the articles. But Wikipedia has found something to check this, Wikipedia has found millions of ‘volunteers’ (the people who edit articles, also known as ‘Wikipedians’) to check articles for quality and reliability. 

What is interesting to me, is that Wikipedia is known as a un trustable source, well especially to me, but still maintains to make progress in their platform to make sure that articles are only published with reliable sources, to make it a factchecking article. And because the company doesn’t want to make profit of it, it only gains more respect from me and probably many others. That's why I think that Wikipedia is becoming more accepted over the years.

I mentioned “Brittanica” before in my blog, I did my research and this is also an online encyclopedia, but I’ve never heard of it nor used it. Have you?

Hanane Ben Abdeslam

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