Wikipedia

Wikipedia is a free online encyclopedia, created and edited by volunteers around the world and hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation.

Wikipedia (/ˌwɪkɪˈpiːdiə/ ( About this sound listen) wik-ih-PEE-dee-ə or /ˌwɪkiˈp iːdiə/ ( About this sound …Owner: Wikimedia FoundationCreated by: Jimmy Wales; Larry SangerLaunched: January 15, 2001; 19 years agoAvailable in: 309 languages

Wikipedia isn’t exactly “dying,” in that it will continue to be a popular tool for a long time. Some say Wikipedia has come to be unacceptable as an academic source, and that this is evidence that it’s on its way out.

A 2005 study by the journal Nature found Wikipedia roughly as accurate as the Encyclopedia Britannica, and a 2008 study in the journal Reference Services Review pegged Wikipedia’s accuracy rate at 80 percent compared to 95-96 percent among other sources — not bad for a free, crowd-sourced encyclopedia.