Wikipedia has been facing inaccuracy
claims throughout its existence, but recently the online encyclopaedia
has announced that it will be taking action towards making the
information displayed on their website more reliable.
They intend to resolve their problems, by using a new package that will
first be tested on the German version, where readers will no longer be
able to alter information instantly, besides their own "reliable"
editors. Any readers wanting to make an alteration would have to
propose it to these called editors, which are picked based on how many
reliable articles they have online. Certified "vandal-free" pages will
also be available, as well as a new rating system that would rate
editors on how many changes to their input info are requested, the
fewer the changes, the higher the reliability score.
On the other hand, this could also be Wikipedia's response to Citizendium,
as Tetridia has reported last month, Citizendium was created by
Wikipedia's ex co-founder, as an online encyclopaedia that provides
reliable and accurate information, the public can alter information but
not anonymously, there are also editors and all reports are constantly
monitored and checked for accuracy.
Wikipedia started in January 2001 and it was created with the objective
of providing a "free content encyclopaedia", that could be edited by
anyone around the world, offering one site that people could turn to
for a wide array of articles and content. These new changes would
obviously affect their original premises, but can we really trust
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Anja Glauch is the co-founder and managing director of Tetridia Ltd. She began her career in Information Technology more than 11 years ago. She is leading the companies Online Marketing, Search Engine Marketing and Search Engine Optimisation activities.
