The Truth According To Wikipedia

The Truth According to Wikipedia revolves around the reliability of Wikipedia, a free encyclopaedia that can be edited by anyone and is one of the most popular websites on the internet. It highlights the fact that anyone can create or edit an entry on the site, resulting in questionable levels of accuracy and posing a threat to traditional collections of information such as Encyclopaedia Britannica.

The film interviews figures such as Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger, Wikipedia’s co-founders, and Phoebe Ayers, a Wikipedia editor and author of How Wikipedia Works, in order to gain insight into Wikipedia’s double-edged nature. Andrew Keen, a British-American defender of scholarly knowledge, is also presented as a counterpoint to the inclusive benefits of Wikipedia’s open-ended model. Keen puts forward the view that any vessel of information must be overseen by a panel of learned experts.