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Harvard Law School Berkman Center for Internet and Society fellow David D. Weinberger questioned the changing nature of authority in the internet age in a discussion entitled “The Authority of Wikipedia?? last night. “In order to have authority at Wiki[pedia] you must be willing to negotiate what you consider to be the truth,” said Weinberger, who is also an author and a blogger. Wikipedia is a popular online encyclopedia that is written and edited by the public. The site—www.wikipedia.org—is known...
Some prominent figures have taken an aggressive stance on the question of Wikipedia??s trustworthyness. In the site’s defense stands a huge corps of writers in a variety of fields, including such weighty entities as the Michigan State Supreme Court (which cited Wikipedia for information about “positional aslphyxia” in a 2004 opinion). These people may not explicitly lend their credence to the project (though some certainly have), but they give it de facto support by including it on their works cited pages...
...question is certainly a difficult one. To Wikipedia??s credit, it looks, and in most cases is, fantastic. Its coverage on even the most obscure topics generally stands up to extensive critical scrutiny, and even the quality of the prose, while variable, is in many places excellent. In fact, many of Wikipedia??s detractors think quite highly of the site and all it has accomplished—one of them, Larry Sanger, even co-founded the project, though he’s since moved on to other things...