Wiki... WHAT?

a. What is Wikipedia?
Wikipedia is a multilingual, Web-based encyclopedia project, operated by the Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profi organization.

b. How would you answer the question posed in this piece “How reliable can a source be when anyone can edit it?”?
Many people have different views on how reliable a source is when anyone can edit it. The person looking for the specific information should always cross reference the information.

c. Who do the creators of Wikipedia place their trust in when it comes to weeding out misinformation?
The owners of Wikipedia put their trust in the "wisdom of crowds," believing that by having many people watching what appears there, errors and vandalism will be weeded out, sooner than later.

d. Why did founder Larry Sanger leave Wikipedia?
Larry Sanger left Wikipedia because he believed that experts of these many topics should have more authority.
e. What would abuse or vandalism look like on a Wikipedia page?
Abuse of vandalism on Wikipedia would look like false information.

f. What do the statistics quoted in the third paragraph of this piece reveal?
With Wikipedia publishing their 2,000,000th article and being translated in 280 languages, it shows that Wikipedia is one of the fastest growing and most popular forms of research in the world.

g. Why do you think Wikipedia is so successful?
I think Wikipedia is so successful because of it's wide range of topics and the fact that it is in so many languages. It allows for more people to use it to look up many different things.

h. Why might Wikipedia’s creators not want to accept advertising?
They don't want to clutter up the website with ads.

i. How does Wikiscanner help increase the reliability of Wikipedia entries?
It allows the workers of Wikipedia to check the IP addresses of anonymous editors of the site to make sure they are credible sources.