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Feb 11, 2011 · Wikipedia has over 17 million articles (3.5 million in English) making Wikipedia the largest encyclopedia in the history of encyclopedias. With 1,000 new articles added daily to the English version, and more than 100,000 active volunteers editing the site each day—the number of entries online are truly limitless.
- Mahzarin Banaji
- 2011
Feb 11, 2011 · Why Wikipedia? I believe in the Wikipedia initiative because like many of you I believe that free access to knowledge is a right. Although I’m unlikely to use Wikipedia to learn about psychology, I do use it regularly to learn about all sorts of things I know far less about. For this reason I support it by using it and contributing to it.
- Mahzarin R Banaji
- 2011
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Dec 3, 2019 · In fact, Wikipedia systematically compensates for the lack of credentials by heavy emphasis on reliable sources. It is a paradox: Wikipedia is one of the 10 most popular websites in the world according to TopSites, and by most measures it is the most widely read knowledge repository on Earth, but still it is often treated as not worth academic ...
- Dariusz Jemielniak
- 2019
- What Exactly Is Wikipedia?
- Wikipedia’s Strengths
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Wikipedia, which launched in 2001is a free online encyclopedia run by the nonprofit Wikimedia Foundation and written collaboratively by its users. There are 10 rules and five pillarsfor contributing to the site. The five pillars establish Wikipedia as a free online encyclopedia, with articles that are accurate and cite reliable sources, and editors...
1. Basic information on virtually any topic In addition to being free and readily available, Wikipedia’s standardized article layoutand hyperlinks to other articles enable readers to quickly track down the basics on their topic – the who, what, when, where and why. In our experience, many students come to the library with a chosen topic – for examp...
1. Systemic and gender bias The crowdsourced nature of Wikipedia can lead to the exclusion of some voices and topics. Although anyone can edit, not everyone does. On the issue of gender bias, Wikipedia acknowledges that most contributors are male, few biographies are about women, and topics of interest to women receive less coverage. This dynamic c...
Apr 18, 2008 · A series of 3 studies examined Wikipedia's coverage of psychology-related concepts, examined how accessible Wikipedia's psychology content is when using Internet search engines, and described how both first-year and senior undergraduates use Wikipedia.
- Nicholas Schweitzer
- 2008
About the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Psychology. Substantive, peer-reviewed, and regularly updated, the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Psychology combines the speed and flexibility of digital with the rigorous standards of academic publishing. The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Psychology is currently available to institutions worldwide ...
Wilhelm Wundt. Wilhelm Maximilian Wundt ( / wʊnt /; German: [vʊnt]; 16 August 1832 – 31 August 1920) was a German physiologist, philosopher, and professor, one of the fathers of modern psychology. Wundt, who distinguished psychology as a science from philosophy and biology, was the first person ever to call himself a psychologist. [1]
