Wikipedia and Information Literacy.

Abstract

The article offers an insight into how to evaluate the web site Wikipedia, what to trust and not trust, and how to use it more effectively and confidently. It discusses some of the challenges of interpreting the quality of Wikipedia articles which have the potential problems in terms of maliciously falsified information or errors introduced through non-expert contributors. The visual indicators that can tell the quality of an article are explained. It also discussed how to skim an article for signs of quality, and how to look at the history of how it got that way.