Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Wikipedia
I have been using the internet for quite some time now for research and personal reasons. Wikipedia was one of the main cites I trusted for important information. As of a week ago, the site is now complete garbage. Its information can be altered by anyone that has the proper account, including myself. Recently, I created my account to try and ubderstand the process of wikipedia. During this, I chose an article regarding my favorite books description and added what I thought of the book in general. This showed how easily infromation can be alterned at any time. I for one will do extensive research on everything I need to know about.
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I am very tempted to comment on your blog post in a not very friendly way. But I'll try to keep this fairly nice.
ReplyDeleteWikipedia hasn't suddenly turned to garbage. Wikipedia is neither useless garbage nor the one and only truth. It is quite useful, but it isn't perfect. You need to find out how it works.
You wrote on Wikipedia about your favourite book. Hopefully, what you wrote was neutral enough so it was allowed to stay. In that case, great! But it sounds like you wrote your opinion about the book. If you did, you should check the article again. Most probably, what you wrote has been removed. Information on Wikipedia can be altered by anyone, you don't even need to register to do it. But Wikipedia isn't a blog, and there are lots of rules (some making more sense than others) about how articles should be written. Lots of edits are reverted every day.