User:DGG/R

Reliability of Wikipedia

positive factors affecting reliability

1. Large number of contributors
2. Varied background of contributors
   1. Education
   2. Interest
   3. Geography
   4. Language knowledge
3. Specialist contributors
4. WikiProjects and Workgroups
5. Screening of contributions
   1. Recent Changes
   2. Edit filters
   3. New Pages
   4. Patrolled pages for Biography of Living people (forthcoming)
   5. Quality ratings: featured articles,...
   6. Blocking
6. Policy on sourcing
7. Policy: Not Censored
8. Edit histories
9. OTRS

Negative factors affecting reliability

1. Concentration of editors on popular topics
2. Anonymity
3. Impermanence
4. Pressure groups & cabals
5. Cultural bias
   1. Recentist
   2. Anglocentric
   3. Political inclinations
   4. Philosophical inclinations
6. Taboos