Wikipedia is Loosing Its Contributors
How many times have you searched for something and then found it on a wikipedia page? I bet that the answer contains quite an impressive number. After all, wikipedia is the number one online source of information.
With millions of contributors who write and check their information, Wikipedia has developed into an enormous database.
Though, a strange thing is happening: almost 50,000 editors have left from Wikipedia this year. Why is this happening?
Well, the officials say that most of them were writing on controversial subjects. And due to the fact that a lot of people were able to modify the Wikipedia page, the conflicts between the opinions have not waited to appear. Practically, people wrote according to their opinions, but after that, other people came and changed all the stuff. Therefore, for some people, all their work was a waste of time.
Even if the Wikipedia staff is giving their best in order to stop the opinion conflict, these efforts look like a fight with the windmills. Due to the policy of the site, anyone could practically change a certain page. Therefore, there will always be opinion conflicts.
And, in order to prevent the leaving of the editors, Wikipedia should find very fast a solution.
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