18/05/2025
WIKIPEDIA: IMMENSE BUT UNCONTROLLABLE POWER?
With editions in 350 languages, over 300 million pages and tens of millions of articles, Wikipedia has become one of the ten most visited websites in the world over the past 24 years.
The online encyclopedia is thus an essential resource for journalists, politicians and, more generally, anyone seeking information on a given subject.
However, this success and dominant position does not immunize this ever-expanding project against certain weaknesses, excesses, and abuses. As we will demonstrate in this report, it is the very functioning of the online "collaborative encyclopedia" that generates these problems: anyone can contribute anonymously - without having any specific knowledge or authority to deal with a subject - and anyone can modify any article, just as anonymously.
