Article: Not everything on Wikipedia is fact

Jeremy Mahadevan
New Straits Times
03-05-2006
Not everything on Wikipedia is fact
Byline: Jeremy Mahadevan
Edition: New Sunday Times

KUALA LUMPUR, Sat. - The Internet is often touted as the ultimate democratic tool, a space where every voice can be heard.

Of all the sites on the Net, the one that is closest to this ideal is Wikipedia (wikipedia.org).
It's an online encyclopaedia built around the concept of wikis, pages that can be read and edited by anybody.

Wikipedia is sustained and expanded almost entirely by volunteer contributors.

Hence, all the articles on it develop first from user submissions, which are then refined and corrected by other users until, theoretically, they reach ...

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