The creator of Wikipedia looks different on the lexicon than he did 2 years ago.
The creator of the popular lexicon Wikipedia, Jimmy Wales gave a strong warning to the students who used the lexicon for school. At that time he meant that Wikipedia was not serious enough to be used for school work and studies.
The lexicon has now improved so much that it actually can be used by students.
Teachers and professors which refuses to use the lexicon are bad teachers Wales tells BBC. Wales says that today the lexicon is of such good quality that even students should use for study. He also says that today’s Wikipedia is very serious and the rules are strict when it comes to editing and posting on Wikipedia.
Wikipedia’s Savior?
A group of Wikipedia-users started has started a project and their goal is to increase the quality of the articles on the popular lexicon Wikipedia. The project got the name “Veropedia” and it is a gathering of the best articles from Wikipedia. All the articles from Veropedia are originally taken from Wikipedia, but the members of Veropedia read them first and fix small errors that might occur in a article before they add it to Veropedia.
Once a article has been stored in Veropedia it is impossible to edit it. If it should be neccaserry to update the articles this has to happen in Wikipedia first and later the staff of Veropedia have to accept the new changes and transfer it to Veropedia.
Strict Control
Wikipedia articles which transfers to Veropedia has to fulfill strong demands. All articles must be read by experts on the area and must have no dead links. Veropedia hopes that people will improve the articles of Wikipedia and later move them to Veropedia for inspection.
Veropedia vs. Wikipedia
The point is not that Veropedia will replace Wikipedia, at least not at first. The 2 sites got different tasks. Readers should visit Vleropedia first and if they don’t find what they are looking for they should go and take a look at Wikipedia.
So far Veropedia only got a few thousand articles, but they will add more and more. The project is still only in beta version.
The plan is that the project will become based on commercials to finance the progress.
You can find more details of the project at veropedia.com. There is still only English version available.
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