Wikipedia has been a very big help for me, just like what others have experienced. But what makes Wikipedia bad is that, it can be anyone, as long as he or she has an Internet access.
I've been a Wikipedia user for months, but what makes me mad about it is that, many people vandalize it with unsourced, unreliable and biased statements, which violate the Wikipedia rules and guidelines.
Take a look at an article of Pastor Apollo C. Quiboloy in Wikipedia and its history. It's just one of the hundreds of thousands of unreliable articles with unreliable sources. Please help Wikipedia polish those 'vandalized' articles.
And what makes it worse is that, if you search for a certain thing through search engines(e.g. Google, Yahoo), a Wikipedia article related with the search keyword is placed on the first page of results. And in most cases, it is placed on top.
And I'm not so sure with the 'fundraising' stuff inside Wikipedia. They raise funds for what? They say that 'Help Wikipedia share the gift of knowledge.' How can anyone help share the gift of knowledge if such unreliable articles are still posted on the said online encyclopedia?
There are lots of negative stuff on Wikipedia to share with. If you want to know more, there's a Wikipedia article on the Wikipedia itself. Better check it out.
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