This article from MIT technology review makes some great points. They are right there is no free information hub quite like Wikipedia. With all the good that Wikipedia does there are some downfalls like the articles mentions such as vandalism, hoaxes and manipulation. I have never regarded as Wikipedia as a high quality source of information because if its editing abilities although that is what makes it great in some aspects. Overall, this article goes into an in-depth look into the ongoing problems, such as how to verify true information, how to monitor the posts, the virtual editor, and Wikipedia's bureaucracy that Wikipedia is facing and how they are planning to or failing at fixing them.
A statistics that comes up a lot and is even mentioned in Ron's blog post that 90% of the editors are male. What does this mean to you in terms of content?
http://www.technologyreview.com/featuredstory/520446/the-decline-of-wikipedia/
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