Wikipedia is a "multilingual, Web-based encyclopedia project, operated by the Wikimedia Foundation, a nonprofit organization." In answering the question “How reliable can a source be when anyone can edit it?”, it's said even in the article that you can't really depend on it because it only works in "practice, so it can never work". The creators of Wikipedia put their fath in "the widom of crowds". They believe that having a lot people will help weed out errors, and vandalism sooner or later. Larry Spanger left Wikipedia because he believed it should give more authority ; and has created a new site called citizendium that does just that.
Abuse or vandalism on a wikipedia page would be like copyrighted stuff from other websites or rude opinionated things shared on the site. In the 3rd paragraph it reveals that the English Wikipedia published article number 2,000,000; and there are currently wikipdeias in more than 280 languages with a total of more than eight million articles. It's also revealed that the encyclopedia is among the top 10 most-visited sites on the internet around the world. I think Wikipedia is so successful because it's open to the public to add their information onto the site. Wikipedia's creators might not want to accept advertising because a lot of times, there is false advertising. Wikiscanner helps increase the reliability of Wikipedia entries by weeding out the ones that promote false advertising.
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