Events 2009
Wikipedia: How Reliable Is It?
Lecture by Pavel Hrdlička, Chairman of the Wikimedia Audit Commission, Czech Republic
When: Wednesday, December 9, 6:00 pm
Where: American Center, Tržiště 13 (1st Floor), Prague 1 – Malá Strana
With more than 65 million visitors a month, Wikipedia—the San Diego, California-based multilingual online encyclopedia written collaboratively by volunteers from around the world—is the Internet’s largest and most popular general reference work. Pavel Hrdlička, who chairs Wiki’s Czech audit commission, will answer the questions most frequently asked about the project: "How reliable is Wikipedia?", "Who writes Wikipedia?" and "How can I contribute to it?"
Skeptics have argued since Wikipedia’s 2001 launch that an encyclopedia anyone can edit is vulnerable to mistakes. Despite the critics, Wikipedia has grown to encompass 14 million articles in 262 languages (including, since 2002, Czech) and a 2005 investigation in the journal Nature suggested that Wikipedia’s scientific articles approached Encyclopædia Britannica’s level of accuracy.
The non-profit Wikimedia Foundation supports Wikipedia. The name Wikipedia is a combination of the words wiki (a technology for creating collaborative websites, from the Hawaiian word wiki, meaning "quick") and encyclopedia.
An open discussion will follow the lecture.
The event will be held in Czech.
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