Wikipedia Lost Tens Of Thousands Of Editors

Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia, might not be as useful and accurate as it was earlier, a recent study has revealed.

The study, done by Felipe Ortega, from Universidad Rey Juan Carlos in Madrid revealed that around 49000 volunteer editors in the English language section of the website have left it in the past three months as compared to 4900 last year.

The website, which averages around 325 million visits per month, allows its volunteers to post articles and edit them freely. But this freedom has led to offensive material being posted on the website.

Ortega believes that the reason for the site being abandoned by the volunteers is the increased bureaucracy to avert errors when the death of US senator Edward Kennedy was announced prematurely. Quite expectedly some users now feel that the website has become the part of an administration.

The site, which is ranked as the fifth most popular website in the world, is popular due to the fact that it provides the visitors a free domain to post articles without any editorial bias.

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But now as the content of the website is being strictly monitored, some of its volunteers might feel that they don’t have that kind of freedom anymore.