How do Wikipedia’s processes for creating and modifying articles ever lead to high-quality results?
Wikipdia is a free content encyclopedia project. It is written collaboratively by individuals all over the world and anyone can edit any content. Visitors do not need special knowledge or need to be a subject matter expert to contribute to wiki. They can add, edit information, cross references however must comply within Wiki’s edit policies and standards.
Wikipedia produces high quality results, because wiki model is different when compared to other tools such as blogging. Wiki gives its users incentive for their writing. If a user writes high quality articles citing apprpriate references and sources of information then chances are that it will stay in the website. However, if a user writes something inaccurate or something that annoys or disputes with people then there is a high chance it will dissappear from the site. All users to the Wiki site have read, write, edit and delete access which makes it easier to remove inapprpriate content that do not add any value and ensure the site delivers only high quality content.(atleast for the most part).
Quick Statistic (Reference Wikepedia Site) – Due to its high-quality content Wikipedia has grown rapidly into one of the largest reference websites attracting atleast 684 million visitors yearly by 2008.
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