• Wikipedia

Overview

Wikipedia has a rating of 3.05 stars from 173 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally satisfied with their purchases. Reviewers satisfied with Wikipedia most frequently mention online encyclopedia, many times, and reliable source. Wikipedia ranks 1st among Open Source sites.

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  • Wikipedia has brought information just one click away.
  • Even though people add or edit the info, most of the time it is accurate.

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Top Positive Review

“I'm greatful this site exists.”

Kent W.
3/27/23

I love Wikipedia. It is great if you want easy access to information without having to search too deep on the web. I'd say more than 90% of the time, the articles are accurate and true. It's a shame we can't use this site in schools even though there are moderators whose job it is to validate the accuracy of the articles. There's even references where you can see where the writer got their information. I don't know what I would do without Wikipedia, and I am very grateful they are providing their almost unlimited arsenal of knowledge for free. I've donated to this site before and will do it again.

Top Critical Review

“Wicked-Pedia sucks”

Karin g.
12/13/23

Wicked-Pedia is absolute bull$#*!. Based on opinion and not fact. Anyone can "add" or "edit' factual definitions or descriptions and alter them into hearsay and/or opinion. DON'T believe what you read. GO TO THE LIBRARY.

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Thumbnail of user tony.p
1 review
0 helpful votes
July 24th, 2023

It can be hard to get new topics added. In particular, I know of the rejection of pages for an influential database technology (with US patents) and for a digital standards organisation, and yet there was a page for a US-based comedy series that was never shown in Europe. Not everything in the technical pages is correct, or even fully accepted. It can be seen that some of these pages have taken material from multiple sources that conflict with each other -- basically, some subjects have no precise or universally agreed description. On the other hand, some pages -- especially in physics or mathematics -- have almost been contrived to be unintelligible to the lay person. This is subtly important because it poses the question of whether the site is be educational or not.

Thumbnail of user nicoleg791
3 reviews
0 helpful votes
May 25th, 2021

Ottimo sito per avere ogni tipo di informazione vera in poco tempo. Alcune volte le informazioni risultano un po' difficili da comprendere ma per il resto mi ha aiutato molte volte!

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Thumbnail of user austinb201
1 review
2 helpful votes
December 20th, 2020

Multiple attempts to beg for $ during pandemic. Use advertisers if running a site is that expensive.

Thumbnail of user icarop
2 reviews
1 helpful vote
August 10th, 2019

This site is good, have big informations. But sometimes it has false information in articles. Big help in college searchs

Thumbnail of user ambikas
2 reviews
9 helpful votes
March 19th, 2018

This Website has many mistakes in research and Isn't good because many users have trust in you and as a result, most of Wikipedia information contains false and misleading information you must correct this!

Thumbnail of user anam139
2 reviews
2 helpful votes
May 7th, 2017

You guys research isn't always the truth. Like in Burundi with traditional food, it's all depands on province where you're from. Some of us grow patatoes, lots of them, sweet potatoes, Amasaka, Uburo, Amahonda, beans, peas and also grow cows not for decoration but to sell and eat, use milk as well, goats and not forgetting chicken including vegetables and misigati-sugar canes -. While other provinces grow cassava, yam, sweet potatoes, sugar canes, beans, amateke, rice, maize, bananas, Palm oil, and live near lakes and fishing a lot. Some grow tea and coffee, and chicken too, and all the good stuff. We appreciate your research but please dig dipped, visit everywhere not just in the city where there isn't anything grown beside heat :) then write good information. Whatever happens to oranges, ripe bananas, lemons, amapera, mangos, Imitagafero, papayas, amashu (cabagge), lengarenga ( red root), amashindwe, tangerines, mandazis, fish from Lake tanganyika or other small rivers? Like I said, travel, do your research, don'tstay in the city where they buy everything in the store and think that the milk is produced from a bycicle then put it on the page. We might be poor, but we have good food.

Thumbnail of user omegar
149 reviews
1,785 helpful votes
November 9th, 2011

There is a reason why I will not give full ratings for Wikipedia and it has to do with two reasons

1. Everyone likes to see Wikipedia as an information tool which it is but does it have credible and reliable and trustworthy information on it all of the time? The answer is that not all of the time is this the case. At times one will come across pages on Wikipedia where the information may not be able to be trusted because the page does not refer to any actual sources for what has been posted

2. Moderators at times tend to have prejudices against those who post certain kinds of information that they deem "inappropriate" when actually it is not inappropriate at all and eventually gets removed by them sadly. It is many times difficult to get them to take down a tag on a post that they have deemed inappropriate when actually it may not be the case. What a shame!

However the site still has its usefulness!.

Thumbnail of user barbaras28
7 reviews
19 helpful votes
May 30th, 2012

I think Wikipedia is a fun site and gives you a good broad overview of things. However, the content often has errors and it is not a fully reliable source for information. I will put it this way, my daughter tried to use it was a source for a research paper and the teacher gave the entire class a lesson about finding more valid sources. That is not intended as a putdown to Wikipedia. It is good, general knowledge but if you are seriously researching something you need to dig deeper.

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