Wikipedia has been facing inaccuracy claims throughout its existence, but recently the online encyclopaedia has announced that it will be taking action towards making the information displayed on their website more reliable.

They intend to resolve their problems, by using a new package that will first be tested on the German version, where readers will no longer be able to alter information instantly, besides their own "reliable" editors. Any readers wanting to make an alteration would have to propose it to these called editors, which are picked based on how many reliable articles they have online. Certified "vandal-free" pages will also be available, as well as a new rating system that would rate editors on how many changes to their input info are requested, the fewer the changes, the higher the reliability score.

On the other hand, this could also be Wikipedia's response to Citizendium, as Tetridia has reported last month, Citizendium was created by Wikipedia's ex co-founder, as an online encyclopaedia that provides reliable and accurate information, the public can alter information but not anonymously, there are also editors and all reports are constantly monitored and checked for accuracy.

Wikipedia started in January 2001 and it was created with the objective of providing a "free content encyclopaedia", that could be edited by anyone around the world, offering one site that people could turn to for a wide array of articles and content. These new changes would obviously affect their original premises, but can we really trust Wikipedia to become a reliable base for information?

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