User:Ottawahitech/Predictions of Wikipedia's end

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"Will Wikipedia exist in 20 years?", a 2017 discussion between Yochai Benkler and Katherine Maher

People offer different predictions of Wikipedia's end. The predictions are reasons that people think may cause Wikipedia to fail. These reasons include the bad quality of Wikipedia's articles, people not wanting to read or edit Wikipedia, another website "killing" Wikipedia, and the attitude of Wikipedia administrators. These reasons will lead to the break-up of Wikipedia as a project.

On July 02, 2019 Slate reporter Stephen Harrison wrote about a Constitutional Crisis at Wikipedia.[1]

Reputation for content of poor quality[change | change source]

Some people say that the quality of the content in Wikipedia is poor. Over time, more people find out that they can find better content somewhere else. The lack of good content in Wikipedia leads to its end.[2][3]

Not enough editors[change | change source]

Wikipedia's editors are crowdsourced volunteers who create and maintain the articles on Wikipedia. Without enough volunteer editors to build Wikipedia it would become out of date. Without enough volunteer editors to maintain Wikipedia the quality of articles that are already there would go down. Some people think that Wikipedia has or will not have enough editors to keep it going, and it will fail because of lack of participation.[2][4][5][6][7][8][9]

Another website "killing" Wikipedia[change | change source]

Companies make other websites to compete with Wikipedia. Experts sometimes think that another website will do everything that Wikipedia does but will do it better. That new website would then be a Wikipedia "killer" and take away all the attention, donations and volunteers. This will cause Wikipedia to fail because if it does not get enough readers and volunteers there will not be enough money to keep it going. Examples of such "killer" websites have included wiki.com,[10] Knol,[11][12] Wolfram Alpha,[13] and AOL's Owl.[14]

Quality of Wikipedia's administrators[change | change source]

Wikipedia has administrators who perform different activities on Wikipedia. Some people have described Wikipedia's administrators as harsh, bureaucratic, biased, unfair, or acting in a way that cannot be understood by other people . Some people think that anger over Wikipedia's bad administrators will lead to closure of Wikipedia.[2][15][16]

References[change | change source]

  1. ↑ https://slate.com/technology/2019/07/wikipedia-fram-banning-editor-controversy.html
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Simonite, Tom (22 October 2013). "The Decline of Wikipedia". MIT Technology Review. Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
  3. ↑ Dawson, Christopher (9 December 2008). "Will Virgin Killer be a Wikipedia killer?". ZDNet. CBS Interactive.
  4. ↑ Lih, Andrew (20 June 2015). "Can Wikipedia Survive?". The New York Times.
  5. ↑ Halfaker, Aaron; Geiger, R. Stuart; Morgan, Jonathan T.; Riedl, John (28 December 2012). "The Rise and Decline of an Open Collaboration System" (PDF). American Behavioral Scientist. pp. 664–688. doi:10.1177/0002764212469365.
  6. ↑ Chen, Adrian (4 August 2011). "Wikipedia Is Slowly Dying". Gawker.
  7. ↑ Brown, Andrew (25 June 2015). "Wikipedia editors are a dying breed. The reason? Mobile". The Guardian.
  8. ↑ Angwin, Julia; Fowler, Geoffrey A. (27 November 2009). "Volunteers Log Off as Wikipedia Ages". Wall Street Journal.
  9. ↑ Derakhshan, Hossein (19 October 2017). "How Social Media Endangers Knowledge". Wired.
  10. ↑ Arrington, Michael (3 January 2007). "Wiki.com – No Longer the $3 million Wikipedia Killer". TechCrunch. {{cite web}}: no-break space character in |title= at position 46 (help)
  11. ↑ Helft, Miguel (23 July 2008). "Wikipedia, Meet Knol". The New York Times.
  12. ↑ Dawson, Christopher (28 July 2008). "Google Knol - Yup, it's a Wikipedia killer". ZDNet. CBS Interactive.
  13. ↑ Dawson, Christopher (17 May 2009). "Wolfram Alpha: Wikipedia killer?". ZDNet. CBS Interactive.
  14. ↑ Techcrunch (18 January 2010). "Is Owl AOL's Wikipedia-Killer?". www.mediapost.com.
  15. ↑ James, Andrea (14 February 2017). "Watching Wikipedia's extinction event from a distance". Boing Boing.
  16. ↑ Carr, Nicholas G. (24 May 2006). "The death of Wikipedia". ROUGH TYPE.

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