1Q. Choose a source of information that you use regularly. If this is a source that you use and trust, you must be having a preferred reading to either its content or the company itself. What about this source is appealing to you?
1A. I use this source because it always is updating and adding new material and you can search for find literally almost anything you want to search.
2Q. Who owns your source? Is it owned by a larger company? Is it privately owned or traded on the stock market? Who owns the most stock? Try to find the overall parent company.
2A. The parent company is the WikiMedia Foundation. Jimmy Wales is a co-founder of Wikipedia and owns most of it as well. The Articles, by law, are still owned by the people who contributed them.
3Q. Who is the head of your source? This could be a CEO or head editor. Ultimately, who is the boss? Provide some detail about this person.
3A. The boss is mainly Jimmy Wales but Wikipedia is owned by a non-profit organization.
4Q. What are the commercial implications of your source? How do they make money?
4A. They do not make money. The company that owns Wikipedia is a non-profit organization.
5Q. Looking at the content of your source, how does the need to make money impact the content of your source? Explain with detail?
5A. The need for money doesn't affect Wikipedia and it's content because as I said before the company that owns Wikipedia is a non-profit organization.
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