8. Wikipedia.

For my eighth blog I would like to choose Vladimir’s topic and to write about Wikipedia, the website which I have been using since the first time I got the access to the Internet. I should notice that I have been using mostly the Russian version of this encyclopedia and only few times looked up the necessary information in the American analog. 

Wikipedia is an Internet resource where you can easily find an article on almost whatever theme you want.  Many Russian pupils consider this website to be the storage of accurate, credible information, which they trust completely and implicitly. I remember doing my homework and giving oral presentations relying only on this encyclopedia when I was in school. However, when I became a student, I began finding serious mistakes on this website, and, firstly, these mistakes really shocked me. For example, last semester our biology teacher asked us to write a little dictionary which had to contain the definitions of some biological words. As usual, while I was doing this exercise, I used Wikipedia many times. And it was a real shock to hear my teacher saying that he had found some important mistakes in my work. 

Though I still look up some not very serious information in Wikipedia, now I have a clear understanding of this encyclopedia’s disadvantages and never use it thoughtlessly. I found out that articles on this website can be written and edited by ANYONE. Even a pupil can create his own theme in Wikipedia! For me, this fact damaged the credibility of this encyclopedia as a good source of accurate information.

All in all, I want to warn my readers about some doubtful information that Wikipedia includes.