On January 15, 2001, Jimmy Wales published his project for a free encyclopedia online with the intention that users share their knowledge. Fifteen years later, Wikipedia has become a benchmark on the Internet, with more than 37 million articles in more than 270 languages and more than 20 million users . The most widely read is the English edition, followed at a certain distance by the Japanese. The Spanish edition also has a prominent place.
Wikipedia’s success has a lot to do with user collaboration . Individual participation has allowed both growth in the number of articles and economic stability.
Jimmy Wales has highlighted that to achieve its goals Wikipedia is developing other ways to help users publish. One of the best results is the ‘adopt a user’ campaign . Through this formula, experienced users protect new Internet users who want to publish content. In this way they try to remove the objections when publishing and at the same time ensure that the contents have a criterion and a form in accordance with the trajectory of Wikipedia.
In 2005, a study published by the journal Nature carried out a comparison between the traditional Encyclopedia Britannica and Wikipedia . The researchers found that the average is 4 errors for Wikipedia, compared to 3 for the British. In the study, only eight serious errors, related to important concepts, were detected and distributed equally to 50% in both encyclopedias.
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