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I think that Wikipedia is very interesting. It is great to know that many people are able to access it all around the world. Wikipedia is a way of sharing knowledge with the rest of the world. Some people think that not sharing knowledge will be better so they won’t have any type of competition when it comes to who is the smartest person but, I think it’s great how Wikipedia has come up with a way to let many people learn of many things that they have never heard of before. When I was little I would always have to write essays for many of my classes. Sometimes I would have to look information up online and see what I am writing my essay on. Because I was young I didn’t have the knowledge of some things I needed to research on. Sometimes it was hard finding a good reliable cite which I could use for my list of citations in my essays. Since Wikipedia was the first link I saw almost every time when I was searching up something I thought it would be interesting to try and use Wikipedia. As a matter of fact though, my grade school teachers despised the fact that I used Wikipedia which I never understood. Wikipedia was very easy to use and had all the information I needed but my teachers said it wasn’t reliable. Despite the lecture they gave me I would always use Wikipedia for whenever I needed research because I thought it would be a good source of background knowledge. Even though if I wasn’t permitted to use Wikipedia I thought of Wikipedia as a way of understanding what I actually had to do for the assignment before doing any other research. The best part of Wikipedia is that despite what many people may say about it is very helpful and great to use when there is something that you don’t understand. It is also great that many people everywhere can use this worldwide encyclopedia in any language. The only thing that I feel is bad about Wikipedia is that many people still believe that it is unreliable. When the time comes where everyone accepts Wikipedia a worldwide center of knowledge is when Wikipedia will be the best encyclopedia in the world with no flaws. Baker is rescuing all the deleted information that is removed from Wikipedia. He wants to put all the information that Wikipedia wants to delete in the area known as Deletopia. Since there is some information that isn’t very helpful and is deleted often, Baker wants to create a Deletopia for all the people who made pages with information that were deleted by Wikipedia and store them in Deletopia for others who might still want to access them in any way.

An article in the Guardian praised Baker's article about Wikipedia:

Yes, the library and reference book establishments love to attack Wikipedia, the collaborative encyclopedia (http://www.wikipedia.org) as a fraud, a brazen imposter that will corrupt or-worse-misinform all who use it. With all of the information on the Internet, why is this well-intentioned reference source treated so badly? Because, while most of the nonsense on the Web knows its place, Wikipedia has the chutzpah to deem itself a real encyclopedia. Actually, Wikipedia has a dual identity. It is a collaborative Internet project, one of the grandest and most successful examples of this fascinating breed. It is also a genuine encyclopedia and can be considered accordingly.

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