One of the latest resources found on the internet is the communal online encyclopedia. These encyclopedias are, in many ways, like the traditional printed encyclopedias containing collections of articles on various subjects. The unique feature of the onli

The reading explains that the communal encyclopedias have several issues that make them less reliable than the traditional printed encyclopedias and provides three reasons of support. However, the professor explains that communal encyclopedias will never be perfect but it cost the reader so little comparing to the printed ones and refutes each of the Author's reasons.

First, the article claims that the contributors from the online community often lack academic credentials results in inaccurate information. The professor opposes this point by saying that the article criticism is not fair, the regular encyclopedias have errors too. He adds that the different is the online one could be corrected easily while the regular encyclopedias would take years to replace the errors.

Second, the reading posits that the communal nature make it easy for the dishonest individual to put wrong information or addition. On the other hand, the lecture says that online encyclopedias protected from hackers. The professor says that it needed many steps to be done to add or put information in online encyclopedias. Also, he adds that they hire staff of editors to see and correct the wrong information all the time.

Third, the reading asserts that the communal encyclopedias concentrate more on popular topics and gave them the same importance of the historical events. The professor contends that there are no limited space in online encyclopedias as it is in the regular one. He adds that in the regular encyclopedias only selected articles would be added for the limited space. While, in the communal encyclopedias the space not an issue, and academic subjects still deliver. According to the professor that's a large advantage for online encyclopedias.