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This is a proposed new version for the article [[Wikipedia]]/
 
This is a proposed new version for the article [[Wikipedia]]/
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'''Wikipedia''' is an [[internet|online]] [[wiki]]-based [[encyclopedia]] hosted and owned by the non-profit organization [[Wikimedia Foundation]] and financially supported by a $20 million annual online fundraising drive<ref>http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/Wikimedia_Foundation_announces_tenth_annual_fundraising_campaign<ref>, as well as other grants. Most of Wikipedia's articles can be edited publically by both registered and anonymous editors<ref>http://books.google.com/books?id=wMhBQ0WdjF4C&pg=PA199#v=onepage&q&f=false</ref>, mostly consisting of teenagers and the unemployed.<ref>http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/09/18/sanger_forks_wikipedia/</ref>  
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'''Wikipedia''' is an [[internet|online]] [[wiki]]-based [[encyclopedia]] hosted and owned by the non-profit organization [[Wikimedia Foundation]] and financially supported by a $20 million annual online fundraising drive<ref>http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/Wikimedia_Foundation_announces_tenth_annual_fundraising_campaign</ref>, as well as other grants. Most of Wikipedia's articles can be edited publically by both registered and anonymous editors<ref>http://books.google.com/books?id=wMhBQ0WdjF4C&pg=PA199#v=onepage&q&f=false</ref>, mostly consisting of teenagers and the unemployed.<ref>http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/09/18/sanger_forks_wikipedia/</ref>  
    
Critics of Wikipedia state that Wikipedia's articles contain [[systemic bias]], and that the information included within its articles are a mixture of truths, half-truths, and falsehoods. <ref name=hnn>http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/125437</ref>  The nature of Wikipedia also makes it subject to spin and [[bias]], examples of which include paid [[public relations]] advocacy and inserting libellious content into the biographies of politicians for a political purpose. <ref name=hnn/>
 
Critics of Wikipedia state that Wikipedia's articles contain [[systemic bias]], and that the information included within its articles are a mixture of truths, half-truths, and falsehoods. <ref name=hnn>http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/125437</ref>  The nature of Wikipedia also makes it subject to spin and [[bias]], examples of which include paid [[public relations]] advocacy and inserting libellious content into the biographies of politicians for a political purpose. <ref name=hnn/>
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