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New Post 3/13/2007 12:34 AM
User is offline defender
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Is Wikipedia Dying? 
  • The recent scandal involving a false-eminent theology professor rekindled criticism about plagiarism and fake credentials that plague the popular site.
  • After an influential contributor and administrator at the online encyclopedia Wikipedia was found to have invented a history of academic credentials, Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia's co-founder and globetrotting advocate, has called for a voluntary system for accrediting contributors who say they have advanced degrees, like a Ph.D. or M.D.
  • The details of how the system would work are still being bandied about, and include the idea of having users fax copies of their diplomas to Wikipedia's offices, or relying on a "circle of trust," whereby a trusted individual would be in charge of verification. Wales said he thought that some version of his proposal would begin on the site "in a week."
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New Post 3/13/2007 12:41 PM
User is offline Ankur Mittal
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Re: Is Wikipedia Dying? 
No,I think that this news made Wilipedia to grow more due to the large amount of publicity it got from this.
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New Post 3/13/2007 2:48 PM
User is offline Vishal Gupta
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Re: Is Wikipedia Dying? 
^^ +1.
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New Post 3/13/2007 5:56 PM
User is offline Siddharth Maheshwari
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Re: Is Wikipedia Dying? 

^^ I also think so.

And i will also like to add that the articles are by users not by wikipedia so we cant say that they r exactly correct.Althoguh there are many many administrators(moderators)But they can only stop spamming and other things.They are also human beings and it is not neccessary that they know about the subject.

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New Post 3/15/2007 4:47 PM
User is offline Akshay
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Re: Is Wikipedia Dying? 
i think that wikipedia is not dying.....but looseing its popularity....
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