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...remove Ryan Jordan [a prolific editor who lied about his credentials] if he was doing a good job?-Joel Gunn, Greensboro, N.C. The community of Wikipedia is still very much built on trust. A violation of that trust is a very serious matter. It's a sad scenario. (See the 50 best websites...
...there a plan to make Wikipedia more reliable?-Kelsie Lenihan, Regina, Sask. Definitely. We're looking at software tools that will allow the community to quarantine edits from people we don't know. No one in the Wikipedia community would write that Sinbad is dead [as happened on March 15] and leave it up there. That would be a bannable offense-no question. But in the current setup, it can slip through the cracks...
...persuade my teachers to allow me to use Wikipedia as a legitimate research source?-Kaitlyn Grigsby, Medina, Ohio I would agree with your teachers that that isn't the right way to use Wikipedia. The site is a wonderful starting point for research. But it's only a starting point because there's always a chance that there's something wrong, and you should check your sources if you are writing a paper...
...online information site, Conservapedia, was founded to counter Wikipedia's "anti-Christian" and "anti-American" bias. What measures does Wikipedia plan to use to keep bias out of its articles?-Julia T. Quijano, Birmingham, Ala. Well, I think we don't have a liberal bias, and I think they have a conservative bias...
...years on! What are the future prospects?-Saydul Alam, Swansea, Wales It's exciting to see the growth trajectory and to realize that, for example, Arabic Wikipedia in five years will be as large as the German site today. It's going to be freely available to people who have much more serious problems with accessing information than...