Due to the fact that that Wikipedia is “collaboratively edited,”
leaving open the potential for error and misrepresentation of facts,
many academics have long advised pupils to avoid using the site as a
source. Still, the online encyclopedia of sorts does have many truthful
posts and contributors and encouraged to fact check and source
information posted on the site.
But where does Wikipedia, which has more than 22 million articles, get all of its information? WebEmpires.org “crawled the entire database
of English Wikipedia to compile a list of Wikipedia’s top sources.”
What it found was more than 22 million websites, which it then proceeded
to rank by number of times it was used as a source in articles.
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