User:Ottawahitech/Predictions of Wikipedia's end

Some people say that the quality of the content in Wikipedia is poor. Over time, more people find out that they can find better content somewhere else. The lack of good content in Wikipedia leads to its end.^[2][3]

Wikipedia's editors are crowdsourced volunteers who create and maintain the articles on Wikipedia. Without enough volunteer editors to build Wikipedia it would become out of date. Without enough volunteer editors to maintain Wikipedia the quality of articles that are already there would go down. Some people think that Wikipedia has or will not have enough editors to keep it going, and it will fail because of lack of participation.^{[2][4][5][6][7][8][9]}

Companies make other websites to compete with Wikipedia. Experts sometimes think that another website will do everything that Wikipedia does but will do it better. That new website would then be a Wikipedia "killer" and take away all the attention, donations and volunteers. This will cause Wikipedia to fail because if it does not get enough readers and volunteers there will not be enough money to keep it going. Examples of such "killer" websites have included wiki.com,^[10] Knol,^[11][12] Wolfram Alpha,^[13] and AOL's Owl.^[14]

Wikipedia has administrators who perform different activities on Wikipedia. Some people have described Wikipedia's administrators as harsh, bureaucratic, biased, unfair, or acting in a way that cannot be understood by other people . Some people think that anger over Wikipedia's bad administrators will lead to closure of Wikipedia.^[2][15][16]

Category:Criticism of WikipediaCategory:Media disestablishments