Reading Report 1

I thought it was interesting to hear that Wikipedia has a declining number of contributors, but I guess it had to slow down sometime.  I guess some people are running out of things to write about?  I think part of its decline was caused by the fact that they are screening what is posted now to prevent false information from being posted.  It’s a good idea though because now we can feel more confident in the information we get from Wikipedia.  Maybe one day we will even be allowed to use it as a source for research papers, because in the past, my teachers have always told me not to use Wikipedia because its not always factual.  I also found it interesting that he compared the lack of a “rush” when posting something on Wikipedia to a population of bunnies. 

           

I learned that Wikipedia is less than ten years old, yet it has 820,000 million contributors.  Also I learned that they only considered their information to be unreliable after a contributor added himself to the suspect list in the Abraham Lincoln shooting.  You think that they would have looked over their information on things that are of serious importance like that before they let the post up, however they thought of that later, after the incident.  It surprised me that only 13 percent of their contributors were women.  I thought that it would have been a more equal amount of men and women.  Overall, I found the article to be very interesting and informative.