A western spin on information?

[Wendy]

Wikipedia, one of the Worlds fastest growing web organizations and well-known web sites is used by millions of people each day to access information (or what is now accepted as information). The organization is American-founded (C.E.O. Jimmy Wales) and the majority of content displayed on Wikipedia is either written or monitored by Americans.

So does the information retain a western taint? Does Wikipedia have a western agenda? Recently China banned Wikipedia. Does this mean the chinese government saw Wikipedia as a threat to communism, or even western propaganda?

 

[1337_Byte]

That doesn't necessarily mean anything. The information on Wikipedia is pretty accurate and unbiased. Occasionally people edit stuff and mess it up, but it gets fixed very fast. All they need to do is only allow certain people to edit.

 

[Infernal Dave]

I would say that a person may look at Wikipedia, but has to put a limit to how much he/she will keep for his knowledge.
Some could have some errors, some could be misleading 180o.

For example, I had to do a compare and contrast report on, if I can remember, Spartans and the Persians. I went to Wikipedia, and the information was misleading. (Just to let you know, this was about 2 years ago)

Wikipedia is expediently getting stronger though.

 

[Macroman]

I guess so, Since Communism Prevents freedom of Speech thus for Wikipedia a sort of freedom of speech

^ My Unintelligent understanding of the situation.

 

[Nixon]

I would say that a person may look at Wikipedia, but has to put a limit to how much he/she will keep for his knowledge.
Some could have some errors, some could be misleading 180o.

For example, I had to do a compare and contrast report on, if I can remember, Spartans and the Persians. I went to Wikipedia, and the information was misleading. (Just to let you know, this was about 2 years ago)

Wikipedia is expediently getting stronger though.

In a recent accuracy study, wikipedia had a better accuracy percentage than the World Book Encyclopedia.

Teachers just hate wikipedia because it's so easy, and they will tell you its inaccurate just to steer you away from it (that's my theory), either that or they are mislead.

No, i'm not linking my source. I'm too lazy

 

[EL17E]

Anyways Wikipedia gets edited every other 5 seconds when someone messes something up. They have a HUGE moderating and administrating and volunteer usergroup to keep things clean on there. Like I went on there, to the Suzuki article, edited to say "Suzuki is a gayass automobile manufacturer that sucks eggs" and after 2 seconds someone edited it back.