Reading 1-CAI XIAOHUA

 (1) Summary

Wikipedia, which many people didn't think of many years ago, is now the world's largest and most popular reference book on the Internet, ranking among the world's top ten most popular websites. Wikipedia is a mixture of "wiki", the core technology of the site, and "encyclopedia" in English.It is characterized by free content and free editing.

（2）Interesting point 

Like all media projects, Wikipedia isn't perfect, and it's made mistakes.For example, it was only a few years before the Rhine was found to be 1,230 kilometers rather than 1,320 kilometers long.There is also a misrepresentation that 200,000 Poles were killed in a German concentration camp in Warsaw.While Warsaw does exist, it is not an extermination camp, and the English version of Wikipedia has kept the error for 15 years.According to Wikipedia researcher Dobbsch, small entries are more at risk of error than large themes: "When I use Wikipedia, I realize that the more popular and important a topic is, the more trustworthy Wikipedia is.Because it means more people are interested, more people read the text, read it carefully, find the mistakes and correct them."

(3)Discussion 

It mentions that Wikipedia can also have errors, so have you ever encountered errors in information on Wikipedia?

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