This is possible because there are lots of people who put great effort into a single article about a topic they are interested and well versed in and take great care of it by regularly checking it for changes. They simply outmass the people who try to sabotage Wikipedia.

Another good example for the ways websites generate order out of the digital world´s disorder is Wikipedia. Wikipedia has the very same concept as the internet: Everybody who likes to do so can edit or create any article he wants just like anyone can post anything in the internet without it being supervised. You would assume that a lexicon anyone can contribute to the way he wants to will turn out very chaotic and contain a huge amount of false or incomplete information. But in fact most of the articles on Wikipedia are very well written, carefully researched and contain almost no crucial mistakes. This was proven by Jim Giles who made a study comparing the reliability of Wikipedia and Encyclopaedia Britannica for an article in Nature Magazine and came to the conclusion that they "go head to head" (Giles 900-901) quality wise. This is possible because there are lots of people who put great effort into a single article about a topic they are interested and well versed in and take great care of it by regularly checking it for changes. They simply outnumber the people who try to sabotage Wikipedia by far. But the Wiki-system is not flawless. If someone just changed an article for bad and you open it before anyone was able to correct it will not know so and probably not question whether it is wrong or correct as most people have great trust in the system of Wikipedia. This is the reason why it is always recommended to check on other sources aside from Wikipedia. Another problem the Wiki-system cannot fight are “wars” that emerge between people who will not accept other people´s opinions about certain topics. They try for their view of an event or their opinion to always be on Wikipedia and for that cause delete anything anyone else writes down. This is the reason why certain topics, mostly political, will be closed for editing to secure the accuracy of information on Wikipedia. To conclude, the concept of disorder creating its own order on Wikipedia works very well to a certain point, but to secure order beyond that point supervision is essential. Without making use of the concept it would have not been possible for Wikipedia to become the biggest collection of knowledge the world has ever seen.