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Monday, 29 February 2016
Wikipedia
As of current I am not a Wikipedia user nor prescriber.
Personally before coming into regular contact with Wikipedia and using it to form experiences and peer discussion, I would have considered the webpage as good as any physical encyclopedia.
However its poor reliability and heavily saturated information pages leave most Wikipedia users at a loss and filling in massive blanks!
Wikipedia celebrated its 15th birthday this year and sparked a week long global campaign targeting peers in the library, research and cultural sectors. This occurred in thought that Wikipedia could benefit from professional editing in the information world, as it is visited as an open-web source on average 18 billion times a month.
Libraries inwardly see the benefit of using Wikipedia as it has undisputedly the largest casting net among the most eyeballs readily able to view any single page. Wikipedia as a concept uses the same underpinnings that help library foundations across the planet, which basically is that everyone is to have equal access to knowledge.
In summary, it is refreshing and encouraging to see the library initiative with Wikipedia as librarians are tasked for the reason of locating information they simply don't see in plain sight.
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