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'''Wikipedia''' is the world's largest wiki encyclopedia and a top-ten website.<ref>[https://www.lifewire.com/most-popular-sites-3483140 The Top 10 Most Popular Sites of 2018], Lifewire</ref> | '''Wikipedia''' is the world's largest wiki encyclopedia and a top-ten website.<ref>[https://www.lifewire.com/most-popular-sites-3483140 The Top 10 Most Popular Sites of 2018], Lifewire</ref> | ||
The website is a process of outside non-active users writing most of the content of 5 million articles, and about 1,200 people who almost all know each other, doing most of the edits, or editorializing and mistake-fixing.<ref>http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/whowriteswikipedia</ref> In other words, in the absence of such a thing as true neutrality, Wikipedia is the world's largest non-paid freelance writer editorial board (oligarchy), not a democratic or "wisdom-of-the-massses" or "swarm intelligence" effort. | The website is a process of outside non-active users writing most of the content of 5 million articles, and about 1,200 people who almost all know each other, doing most of the edits, or editorializing and mistake-fixing.<ref>http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/whowriteswikipedia</ref> In other words, in the absence of such a thing as true neutrality, Wikipedia is the world's largest non-paid freelance writer editorial board (oligarchy), not a democratic<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:What_Wikipedia_is_not#Wikipedia_is_not_a_democracy</ref> or "wisdom-of-the-massses" or "swarm intelligence" effort. | ||
==Controversies== | ==Controversies== | ||