Wikipedia: Redefining Research

WIKIPEDIA ING LARCH And Eliminating Encyclopedias IV И Wikipedia has forced Encyclopedia Britannica to stop the presses after 244 years of print enough to fill 952 3,881,516 articles in the English Wikipedia volumes of the Encyclopedia Britannica 4.5M 4M Number of Articles 3.5M 27 зм 2.5M 2M MILLION 1.5M 1M pages of content .5M 99% Students Use -Wikipedia of Wikipedia pages rank in google's top 10 search results More than Libraries Only 25% of students visit the library But 8 in 10 Students turn to Wikipedia for their first source of research It's the 6th most visited site and is available in more than 250 languages Library use is declining by 11% annually And the amount of books is declining by 12% 1.59 billion visits to the library annually 5.7 billion visits to wikipedia annually Wikipedia use is increasing by 29% annually 2005 2012 Only 73% of teachers 86% of teachers prohibited use of Wikipedia for research The number of articles is still do increasing by 23% Wikipedia's 56% $20.1M °perating cost is around $20.1 Million a year DONE. 56% of students will halt research if little information is found Cost to operate libraries $10.9 billion a year in the US $10.9B on Wikipedia of college of highschool 112 rie papers plagiarize wikipedia 8% papers plagiarize wikipedia In comparison to college level text books, Wikipedia is 98% as accurate IB -3.86 Errors in entries More than 20 Wikipedia has 3.86 mistakes Wikipedia has had more than 1 are caught by wikipedians within hours colleges are now helping Wikipedia with content and per article - billion edits The encyclopedia Britannica has 2.92 editing Any user can edit 91% 14% any articles, but 74% of edits are made by a are Male hold Masters group of 1400 people 4.4% are PhDs By 2015, Wikipedia plans to: Increase its number of female editors by 25% Increase the number of regular editors to 200,000 Have all articles be 25% more accurate Open-Site.Org ©000 Sources: http://www.concordmonitor.com/article/224794/library-use-declines-by-11-percen ?SĖSSfd86aee004a25bf46299380938499784=google&page=full http://mashable.com/2009/03/30/microsoft-encarta-to-close/ http://www.labnol.org/internet/wikipedia-printed-book/9136/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Size_of_Wikipedia http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/57/EnwikipediaGom.PNG http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page# http://campustechnology.com/articles/2010/03/23/8-in-10-students-turn-to-wikipedia-for-research.aspx https://harvester.census.gov/imls/pubs/Publications/pls2009.pdf http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2010/03/most-students-use-wikipedia-but-avoid-telling-profs-about-it.ars http://wiki.ucalgary.ca/page/Libraries_vs._Wikipedia http://news.cnet.com/2100-1038_3-5997332.html http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2011-01/12/ten-fun-facts-wikipedia?page=all http://webupon.com/web-talk/10-unique-and-interesting-facts-about-wikipedia/ http://www.livescience.com/9938-study-wikipedia-pretty-accurate-hard-read.html http://thejournal.com/articles/2011/11/03/wikipedia-tops-list-of-plagiarized-sources.aspx http://campustechnology.com/articles/2011/11/03/wikipedia-tops-list-of-plagiarized-sources.aspx https://harvester.census.gov/imls/pubs/Publications/pls2009.pdf