Accuracy

//Why is there a problem with accuracy on the Internet?// The issue of accuracy on the Internet is directly relatted to the nature of Web 2.0. With the wealth of information avaliable and the types of people authoring said information (anybody who has access to the Internet) the accuracy of the content being authored is hard to control. In other words anyone can write anything they want whether or not it is true.

//Skim through the following article and describe the way in which Wikipedia has fought to become a reliable source// Wikipedia has fought to become a reliable source in a number of ways.

As Wikipedia is an open and collabrative editing, assessments of its reliaility are ussually examinations of how quickly false information is removed. Wikipedia attempts to remove all incorrect and false information as quickly as possible, however they cannot help the hfact athat oftena page will get many views before they are able to fix the incorrect informaiton avaialable on the page. Once incorrect data is found on a wikipedia page, ti is removed and fixed immedietly in roder to make the source as reliable as possible.

One of the ways in which Wikidpedia has fought to become a reliable souce is through developing the Wikiscanner. The Wikiscanner attempts sto scan Wikipedia artiles and find IP addresses of certain institutions such as Australian government who have edited paticular Wikiepdia articles in order to influence the thoughts of society. (removing bias of the source)

Wikipedia has also fought to be a reliable source by including a list of references at the bottom of each WIkiepdia articles. These references are to other sources which provide the same or similar information about the topic. This makes the information reliable as it displays that the content of the article has been cross checked over a variety of sources to ensure that the informaiton displayed matches with a variety of other reliable sources.

Some paticular pages are helped to be reliable through being locked. If a wikiepdia article is locked, this means that only people with permission are able to edit the content of the page. This helps makes the source reliable as only experts in a certain area are able to place content on the page. []