My take on Wikis

The article on Wikipedia really got me thinking about how quickly a pseudo-reference website can grow so astronomically fast. Even through this exercise is it quite likely that the Wiki could grow 100% in terms of how many pages exist in a single week. When I was reading about how the Wikipedia grew so quickly, it was hard to imagine how something could grow into hundreds of thousands, and eventually millions of articles.

There are definite pros and cons to this approach, but it was interesting in the article when they compared the errors in the wiki to the errors of a respected encyclopedia and found that there wasn't that big of a difference. I would expect with the sort of crowd-sourcing that Wikipedia invites that the errors would be significantly greater, but that wasn't the case at the time the article was written. In the past nine years, I'd be curious to see if there has been any change in the percentage of errors found in Wikipedia.

This was a really interesting exercise that the group came up with. For more information on the Group that created this, please click here.

Rather than creating a sign-in at this time, I'll just note that Davidson Hook created this page. No Jackie did! Ha! (Just having fun with the idea that anyone can edit anything on a wiki!)