Almost the entire continent of Africa is geographically poorly represented in Wikipedia. Remarkably, there are more Wikipedia articles written about Antarctica than all but one of the 53 countries in Africa (or perhaps more amazingly, there are more Wikipedia articles written about the fictional places of Middle Earth and Discworld than about many countries in Africa, Asia, and the Americas).
The decay of time, bitter infighting, and the increasing scope and strength of regulations slowly strangle the life out of Wikipedia, with editors—its braintrust—fleeing in droves, even as traffic at the world's fifth most-popular website keeps growing
a free, open content encyclopedia project owned and operated by Hive Magazine. Its name is a portmanteau of the words "manc"(slag term for an inhabitant of Greater Manchester) and "encyclopedia". The articles contained within Manclopedia are written collaboratively by volunteers and almost all of its articles can be edited by anyone who can access the Manclopedia website.
some journalists find it very valuable as a road map to troves of valuable information.and according to Donna
Dismissed by traditional journalism as a gimmicky source of faux information almost since it debuted in 2001, Wikipedia may be gaining some cautious converts as it works its way into the mainstream, albeit more as a road map to information than as a source to cite. While "according to Wikipedia" attributions do crop up, they are relatively rare.
BBC officials repeatedly altered the Wikipedia internet encyclopaedia to water down attacks on the corporation.
An investigation of "anonymous" edits on the site has revealed that the broadcaster's staff rewrote parts of a page entitled "Criticism of the BBC" to defuse press attacks on "political correctness". Also included in more than 7,000 Wikipedia edits by BBC workers are unflattering references to rival broadcasters – and even the corporation's biggest names.
