Blog #4- Readings

The article that I chose to read was called Wikipedia: Exploring Fact City, written by Noam Cohen. One of the things that I found really interesting about Wikipedia is that they operate on a 7 million dollar budget, which consists of only donations and grants, unlike some websites who bombard you with advertisements. I also found it interesting that since the website started seven years ago, it has become one of the top ten global websites. In January alone, there was said to be 60 million Americans visiting the online encyclopedia. The article stated that the articles posted on Wikipedia are usually pretty accurate, which I agree with. I agree that Wikipedia is a great source to generate ideas and get a very basic knowledge about a topic. However, being a preprofessional English teacher, I wouldn't suggest wikipedia to be a source for, lets say, a research paper. I would advise my future students to use a more credible source with more expertise than the people who write articles for Wikipedia.