6.2 Wikipedia

What was the typical cost to purchase a print-based encyclopedia?

$100s to $1,000s

_____ is the predecessor to Wikipedia.

Nupedia

_____ is an education-oriented wiki site.

Wikiversity

Wikipedia

a free, online encyclopedia composed of crowd-sourced articles, begun in 2001

Wiki

a website that enables collaborative development of content

Crowdsourcing

an approach to developing content that involves having the users (the "crowd") be the contributors, rather than using highly-paid professionals

A user must be invited to edit a Wikipedia article.

false

Wikipedia is a subscription-based online encyclopedia.

false

Wikimedia is a _____ organization that hosts a number of wiki-based sites.

non-profit

A wiki enables multiple users to edit content.

true

Errors in Wikipedia articles are typically found and corrected by _________.

users