The non-profit project exceeded in its first four years, the information of the Encyclopedia Britannica and is now a site so large that a normal reader would need over 21 years to read the contents of the pages in English.
> Wales, 49, a millionaire with a humanitarian vision married in third nuptials with Kate Garvey, exasistente staff of British Prime Minister Tony Blair says he wants to create a world in which everyone has free access to all knowledge.
“Jimbo” as friends know him said this week in an interview with the British newspaper “The Telegraph” no regrets not being monetized Wikipedia and it says that if people depended on the corners forgotten the planet would have a mobile phone with preinstalled Wikipedia.
“The growth of Wikipedia in the developing world remains a personal priority of mine (…) so we have much to do,” he said the Telegraph Wales, encyclopedias lover since childhood.
Coinciding with the 15th anniversary of Wikipedia, the FiveThirtyEight website made an analysis of the pages of the online encyclopedia edited.
FiveThirtyEight, which used data provided by the Wikimedia Foundation, which oversees Wikipedia, found that page US President George W. Bush (2001-2009) is the one with more editions, 20 thousand 894 in total.
page exaspirante of the White House Sarah Palin, the entry of the Lebanese war in 2006, the sinister Malaysia Airlines plane in 2014 while flying over Ukraine and the input current president Barack Obama also among the most edited.
As for thematic categories, FiveThirtyEight concluded that “Wikipedians” are obsessed with following the deaths worldwide, as well as political events,
pop culture, time and arcane and esoteric matters. Wikipedia is not, moreover, unaware of the controversy.
In its own entrance, the encyclopedia realize critical views, such as columnist and journalist Edwin Black criticizing Wikipedia for being a mixture of “truth, half-truth and some falsehood”.
In 2006, Wikipedia Watch site listed dozens of examples of plagiarism in the English version of the encyclopedia.
Some errors published in Wikipedia has been sounded.
One of the best known took place in December 2005, when journalist John Seigenthaler, former editor of the newspaper Tennesssean Nashville, complained that the encyclopedia entry into implicating him in the murder President John F. Kennedy.
The error went unnoticed for months.
Wikipedia also received coverage in major US Rotary in 2006 after it came to light that officials had Congress distorted information about some lawmakers who appeared in the encyclopedia.
In 2012, the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, based in London, revealed that one in six British MPs had done that editasen your pages from within parliament, a practice that Wales considered “unethical”, he explained to Telegraph.
Despite these incidents, an analysis in 2005 of 42 science entries in the journal Nature concluded that Wikipedia is about as reliable scientific topics as Encyclopedia Britannica.
Nature found that, in media terms, Wikipedia has four inaccurate data entry, compared with three of its conventional rival, and found only “Eight serious errors “.
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