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WiKIPEDIA And Eliminating En 維 Wikipedia has forced Encyclopedia Britannica to stop the presses after 244 years of print 3,881,516 articles in the English enough to fill 952 volumes of the Britannica Number of Articles 27 MILLION pages o content 99% Students Use Wikipedia More than Libraries Only 25% of students wait the Nbrary google's top 10 search results It's the 6th most visited site and is available in more than 250 languages And the amount Library use is declining by 11% annually 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% 2005 2012 Only 73% of teachers still do 86% of teachers The number of use of Wikipedia for 23% cest is $20.1M Million & year DONE 56% of students..ill halt research if itele information is found on Wikipedia Cast to ogerate libraries $10.9 billion year n the US $10.9B of college of highschool In comparison to college level text books, Wikipedia is 98% as accurate More than 20 Errars in entries are caught by Wikipedia has had mare than billien edits has 3.86 mistakes per article The encyelopedi Britannica has 2.92 91% are Male 14% hold Masters Any user can edit any articles, but 74% of edits are made by a 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 Sources

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amanda b. Moderator

Mar 20, 2012 at 02:42PM EDT

The most interesting part about this is the bottom -- 1400 people essentially control Wikipedia with 74% of the edits and 91% of them are male.

whiznat

Mar 20, 2012 at 05:03PM EDT

The part about Wiki being 98% accurate comes from the source cited at the bottom of the image at livescience.com. If you search for the name of the authors of the cited study, you can find a peer-reviewed article at the Journal of Oncology Practice here: http://jop.ascopubs.org/site/er/JOP000209.pdf. Imagine submitting a paper to your teacher proving Wiki's accuracy by citing a peer-reviewed article. The irony would be delicious.

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