I picked
Wikipedia for my follow up website verification. I use and rely on this website all the
time. So I thought it would be
interesting. It is a .org which seems to
be more reliable but still can be purchased by anyone.
All the links
posted by Wikipedia are reliable and helpful links. When I check the external links I was
surprised to find that the second one listed was a personal website that linked
to Wikipedia. But I also figure that
many personal websites have links to Wikipedia.
When
searching Wikipedia in the search engines the entire 1st page is
links to their actual website.
The only type
of advertisement on the page was the organizations own advertisement. There was a contest and a link to donate
money to the website.
The whois
website showed the name as Wikimedia Foundation,
Inc.
On
the history of the website I found that it stated the website started in
January 2001 and was “a
collaborative project to produce a complete encyclopedia from scratch. It has grown extremely and stated that it is
now the 3rd largest website used for information. What I was surprised to find is that it
stated anyone could edit the site. But
they stated that they monitor and edit it for incorrect or inappropriate
information.
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