Peiyuan SUN
In the digital age, Wikipedia has grown to be the biggest online encyclopedia in terms of comprehensiveness, reach and coverage. It has more than fifty-five million articles in around 300 languages, making it one of the most-widely visited websites around the globe (Mostafa, 2023). Most importantly, Wikipedia has a large amount of volunteers who produce the content for free and edit existing posts through the adoption of an online “volunteer crowdsourcing” model (Jones, 2018; Wikipedia, 2023). This open editing policy has long been a point of contention in academic circles, which raised questions about its reliability and suitability as a reference in educational contexts. Some researchers suggest that “the exponential growth and reliability of Wikipedia make it an ideal knowledge resource for information retrieval” (Mostafa, 2023). However, there continues to be much debate about whether Wikipedia should be used in academia or not (Okoli et al., 2012; Arroyo-Machado et al., 2020).[1] The impermanence of encyclopedic entries and concerns about the quality of content have posed major challenges for years (Peoples, 2009).
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