Reading Respone #2- "Is Wikipedia a Victim of Its Own Success?"

In the reading about Wikipedia it is talking about how big the web based encyclopedia is becoming and how more and more people are not posting new information. The article starts out by talking about how up until 2007 there were people posting about 2,200 new articles every day. In the 2007 though the growth of Wikipedia had flat lined. The article goes on to talk about how websites have limits to the amount of information that continues to be posted; they say that the exponential growth stops at a certain point in time. They call the phenomenon crowdsourcing. The people that are still posting information on Wikipedia are mainly trying to correct errors, and doing other types of editing tasks for the current information on Wikipedia. The people that run wiki are trying to find ways to get better information, more accurate information, and to be fair to the people that are making edit’s to the online encyclopedia. There is so much information already on the Wikipedia site, so ultimately how much more will be put onto the encyclopedia? We don’t really know and some people believe that Wikipedia will no longer be around in five year to ten years. They think that the site will continue to lose peoples interest and ultimately go to the website graveyard.

I think that Wikipedia is an awesome site to have at our disposal. There is so much information in the online encyclopedia that has all been published by some volunteer. Though Wikipedia has gotten so large in a short period of time, and not that many people trust the information that comes off the site, I believe that it is something that makes searching for information better. We you go to Wikipedia and you type in some random fact or something completely out of the blue; you will usually get some information about the entry. I also believe that Wikipedia will continue to slow, because there is so much information already on the encyclopedia that you couldn’t feasibly put 2,200 new articles every day. In conclusion I think that Wikipedia is a very useful resource and that it will be around for many years to come.