Wikipedia has a rating of 2.4 stars from 173 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Wikipedia ranks 6th among Open Source sites.
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I love Wikipedia. It is great if you want easy access to information without having to search too deep on the web. I'd say more than 90% of the time, the articles are accurate and true. It's a shame we can't use this site in schools even though there are moderators whose job it is to validate the accuracy of the articles. There's even references where you can see where the writer got their information. I don't know what I would do without Wikipedia, and I am very grateful they are providing their almost unlimited arsenal of knowledge for free. I've donated to this site before and will do it again.
It is a biased information dump. It does not allow facts to be posted only what is convenient. Recommend not donating to it. Recommend not spending your time on it.
Love how non-experts put this together and how it is mostly super accurate. I always use this thing and Im glad the britanica is dead.
Such a cool computer & information technology project
Date of experience: December 4, 2012
If you like false information. So called facts the are easily disproved, and mass political narrative propaganda stories. If you are extremely uneducated. Then wikipedia is for you.
Tip for consumers:
Get an education, or use factual information sites. Fox, OAN, encyclopedia. Mainstream media sites are heavily political influenced. They state false information regularly
Products used:
None. It's a fake news site
Date of experience: November 25, 2021
Terrible website where a mod can ban whoever he dislike... 0 quality check of the provided information to the public, again a mod can pass his opinion as the "truth".
Date of experience: October 12, 2021
Who doesn't ref wiki, i use it a lot like a lot a lot LOL it's content and ability to be accurate has of lately come under question. Thats not good. We need wiki to be top notch. Long live wiki.
Date of experience: December 8, 2010
Who doesn't love Wikipedia! Okay some of the info can be outdated or even incorrect, but considering the cost (FREE) you can get info on just about anything or anyone.
Date of experience: December 21, 2011
I was blocked from editing until 2022! No reason! Help! This is extremely unfortunate. I love sharing my knowledge and brains on this site and now I cannot do that. The people of Wikipedia cannot survive without my brainpower! Get me unblocked! I loved this site and I cherished it. It was my world. Please... don't leave me Wikipedia. PLEAAAASSSEEEE! I LOVVVVEEEE YOUUU COMMMEEE BACCKKKK. I will never be using this site again! This is extremely unfortunate. I will never forgive you.
Date of experience: October 21, 2020
Admin Eumolpo blocked my account and erased all my contributions after I added a video-critic about Italian Political Religious Economical business moviment "Comunione e Liberazione".
He just mentioned ¨vandalism¨ in his blocking tag, I contacted him several times in several ways but no answer.
Tip for consumers:
Remember that all what you have written on Wikipedia can be deleted without any reason by any administrator.
Date of experience: November 1, 2015
While I do visit Wikipedia on occassion to learn about Great Apes, or Somalia, or what a molecule is, I will never, ever, ever donate a penny to this "fake news" encyclopedia. If you want to see hate or bias, a la CNN style, then read up on Wikipedia's description of the Mar A Lago FBI raid or how Wikipedia newly defines "recession". Wikipedia is pure communist, Democrap hate and propoganda.
Date of experience: August 24, 2022
I've used this site many times to research things, and found it to be incredibly useful. But recently I had the opportunity to post up information on Wiki pages that deal with an issue that I specialize in, and I found out how dysfunctional Wikipedia was. As near as I could tell I was in full compliance with their posting policies, but every time I posted information, it was taken down immediately. When I asked why, I was told it was because I was not an expert. When I probed further it became clear that the person who thought I was not an expert clearly knew far less about the posting topic than I did, and wasn't really qualified to judge my expert status either way. I actually am the Only independent national expert on the topic that I was posting on. After 3 days of back & forth discussions with "citizen monitors" who would not let me post any information, I came to the conclusion that the volunteers who control the posting process and have the right to take down legit postings were poorly trained, and that it would take less time to use other venues to get information out on my topic.
So given the problem that I had trying to contribute useful information on a topic, I have to assume that many other Wiki pages are also compromised by the actions of poorly trained volunteers at Wikipedia.
Date of experience: August 31, 2012
The problem with Wikipedia is that bias and slanderous intent is allowed in writings becdause anyone is allowed to contribute and there is no system of monitoring or review.
Date of experience: June 11, 2023
I seriously don't know what a geek like me would do without wikipedia.org. My first go-to website for any question or mystery. For real.
Date of experience: July 25, 2013
My absolute favorite website of all time, where you can find information on just about anything. Nothing much much to say except "Heart Heart Heart."
Date of experience: August 4, 2010
Internet users who want to publish useful words on Wikipedia are often Discriminated by Google. The Reason is that Wikipedia is from Google, this company does have a lot of interest/greed to control what users can see and what not even if it does have important words, for example useful words like [seodiscrimination] or [Negative Seo] will be blocked by the owners/administrators that does work on Wikipedia platform.
We did try to publish the word Seodiscrimination on Wikipedia, (see images)
Direct after publishing comes an owner/administrator from Wikipedia and does do Down Vote/Disapproved that word. (in a few minutes they do without to analyze if it is a useful word for internet users on the world wide web) and a moment later after doing that this administrator/fake account who did do that bad thing, will be removed/disappear on wikipedia, so that it does not any more exist, this way the users can not contact that administrator and ask them why they do that without any reason.(see images)
Why is the word Seodiscrimination so useful?
Seodiscrimination is a very useful word for all internet users, that will explain in a single/one word,
What the effect is because of Negative Seo, Ad Fraud, Click Fraud, Ranking Fraud, Scam Companies/Websites and many more.
We did also make an important website for all internet users, seodiscrimination dot com but google & Adwords now called Google Ads, does do everything to not to rank this site even if we do or best to have quality backlinks with quality articles pointed to this Landing Page.
Date of experience: April 7, 2021
Needless to say that wikipedia is a great online informational website where you are sure to get loads of information about practically any subject.
Date of experience: February 16, 2016
I try not to use it as a source for research, but pretty good website if you want to find some interesting facts.
Date of experience: August 19, 2016
Whenever I have a question, I turn to Wikipedia for answers. If you can't find it here, it's probably not worth knowing...
Date of experience: January 21, 2013
Wikipedia provides good info and this site also provides editing services if there is any mistake you find in the data.
Date of experience: July 5, 2015
No ads makes the website so easy to use. The amount of information they give on any one subject is amazing.
Date of experience: December 30, 2015
Great site I hope it stays up for many years to come. It needs more supporters though helping with donations.
Date of experience: December 7, 2013
As a source of information, I might give Wikipedia 2 or 3 stars. They do have an extensive collection, but certainly not everything. But, the quality of writing in ways that make the information accessible to anyone is very inconsistent. The authors (and Wikipedia should encourage this) should link to external sites for more technical content.
I just tried posting a set of 4 interrelated pages. And, I'm already screaming and thinking about posting elsewhere.
1. The whole interface is obtuse and far more difficult than it needs to be.
2. Instructions are often wrong (e.g., they say to click on "Save Page" when there is no such button or link) or incomplete (they say to do so and so, but they give you no clue as to where to do this).
3. To get help, you have to go through this completely ridiculous process of posting a question. Why not just have a forum in the typical forum format? Why make it so difficult? It took me 6 tries to get a question posted.
4. They should have all of their instructions and taboos posted in a one simple to access and read area. But, no... they make you dig for it, just guess, or find out the hard way when they reject a page.
5. There should be a way to easily communicate with one individual who made a decision to reject so that you have a consistent way of making changes.
I've worked extensively on Wikidot sites and with their forum. There is a night and day difference. I just find Wikipedia to be frustrating in all aspects from the posting angle, and, I'm not sure how to express this, but there is some deeply embedded ignorance/stupidity or arrogance that prevents them from doing something other than a giant framework of obsolescence. Some group needs to do something better and push out Wikipedia.
Date of experience: September 7, 2016
wikipedia.org is a great free service to find out a lot of good detailed information about pretty much any subject you want, thank you wikipedia!
Date of experience: February 19, 2014
Very reliable. Have found a lot of useful information on there. Kudos to the people who work so hard on keeping it updated so quickly.
Date of experience: February 21, 2012
The editors on this site are sometimes really uptight and rude. The information is top-notch, however. I visit this website more than any other.
Date of experience: April 25, 2013
Many times i took data from wikipedia. Most of the time i got good marks in my assignments and research papers. Thank you wikipedia.
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Use this for quality data
Date of experience: June 27, 2015
Wikipedia is a free online encyclopedia, created and edited by volunteers around the world and hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation.