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Wikipedia Wins Users and Critics

By Jenny Lawton
Published September 11, 2006 at 6:00 AM EDT

Wikipedia is the ever-evolving work of hundreds-of-thousands of volunteer writers and editors who range from high school students to academic scholars. This leaves the online encyclopedia open to criticism and ridicule. That doesn't seem to stop people from using the site as a source for knowledge.

Jenny Lawton of Chicago Public Radio reports.

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Jenny Lawton
Jenny Lawton is a showrunner, editor, and consulting producer. As Managing Editor of WNYC Studios, she worked on more than a dozen shows including More Perfect, La Brega, Nancy, The Anthropocene Reviewed, and the duPont-Columbia Award-winning Blindspot. She also served as Executive Producer of Studio 360 with Kurt Andersen.