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Does Wikipedia Spell Doom?

Anyone using the net will surely have come across Wikipedia - The online interactive encyclopedia. It has been hailed for being the biggest multilingual free-content encyclopedia on the Internet with over four million articles and still growing. The world's 12th ranked Website! But the big question is how reliable or credible is wikipedia? The bone of contention against Wiki is the very foundation of its "free encyclopedia that anyone can edit" concept. A defining characteristic of wiki technology is the ease with which pages can be created and updated. There is no review before modifications are accepted. Wikis generally practice the philosophy of making it easy to correct mistakes, rather than making it difficult to make them. Wiki in News: For all the wrong reasons - There was recently a scandal surrounding the academic qualifications of one of the editors at Wiki. Wikipedia administrator who stated that he was a professor of religion with advanced degrees in theology...