Wikipedia
Today, I was saying how Wikipedia lies because of how the information is always changing. People edit it in so many ways and yet, some others support the idea that Wiki staff checks the site daily and goes through every article that wants to be published on wiki. However, if that is so, why do schools do not allow their staff to recommend it to students? You see, there was a case long ago about inaccurate information on wikipedia:
USATODAY article
Please note this:
Anonymous author
I phoned Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia's founder and asked, "Do you ... have any way to know who wrote that?"
"No, we don't," he said. Representatives of the other two websites said their computers are programmed to copy data verbatim from Wikipedia, never checking whether it is false or factual.
Naturally, I want to unmask my "biographer." And, I am interested in letting many people know that Wikipedia is a flawed and irresponsible research tool.
But searching cyberspace for the identity of people who post spurious information can be frustrating. I found on Wikipedia the registered IP (Internet Protocol) number of my "biographer"- 65-81-97-208. I traced it to a customer of BellSouth Internet. That company advertises a phone number to report "Abuse Issues." An electronic voice said all complaints must be e-mailed. My two e-mails were answered by identical form letters, advising me that the company would conduct an investigation but might not tell me the results. It was signed "Abuse Team."
Wales, Wikipedia's founder, told me that BellSouth would not be helpful. "We have trouble with people posting abusive things over and over and over," he said. "We block their IP numbers, and they sneak in another way. So we contact the service providers, and they are not very responsive."
After three weeks, hearing nothing further about the Abuse Team investigation, I phoned BellSouth's Atlanta corporate headquarters, which led to conversations between my lawyer and BellSouth's counsel. My only remote chance of getting the name, I learned, was to file a "John or Jane Doe" lawsuit against my "biographer." Major communications Internet companies are bound by federal privacy laws that protect the identity of their customers, even those who defame online. Only if a lawsuit resulted in a court subpoena would BellSouth give up the name.
--USATODAY.com
Do you see the ways wikipedia can just put up false information?
Yet, students still go there to find their facts or "net surfers" go there daily for updated news. This online encyclopedia is not as "factual" as they say they are. They attract users and have them donate so that they can "edit".
See here, I went on Wikipedia and the heading was this:
Welcome to Wikipedia,
the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit.
2,863,746 articles in English
The 2 keywords were bolded. Free?
Wikipedia is sustained by people like you. Please donate today.
That was above the heading.
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Fundraising?source=enwiki_02
Sure it's free but... how many really donate? Why would they donate? If people do not donate, how did Jimmy Wales keep wikipedia, such a large encyclopedia, up?
"Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge."
— Jimmy Wales, Founder of Wikipedia
Anyone can edit? Sure they can and that's why it led to false information!
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Introduction&action=edit
I could just type the most random things on that URL and it MAY still be accepted.
Please, wikipedia is full of lies.
Please do not think that this post is to discourage others to visit wikipedia because this is a personal blog and I am voicing my own opinions hence the first amendment in the Bill of Rights. Thank you for your time to read this.
USATODAY article
Please note this:
Anonymous author
I phoned Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia's founder and asked, "Do you ... have any way to know who wrote that?"
"No, we don't," he said. Representatives of the other two websites said their computers are programmed to copy data verbatim from Wikipedia, never checking whether it is false or factual.
Naturally, I want to unmask my "biographer." And, I am interested in letting many people know that Wikipedia is a flawed and irresponsible research tool.
But searching cyberspace for the identity of people who post spurious information can be frustrating. I found on Wikipedia the registered IP (Internet Protocol) number of my "biographer"- 65-81-97-208. I traced it to a customer of BellSouth Internet. That company advertises a phone number to report "Abuse Issues." An electronic voice said all complaints must be e-mailed. My two e-mails were answered by identical form letters, advising me that the company would conduct an investigation but might not tell me the results. It was signed "Abuse Team."
Wales, Wikipedia's founder, told me that BellSouth would not be helpful. "We have trouble with people posting abusive things over and over and over," he said. "We block their IP numbers, and they sneak in another way. So we contact the service providers, and they are not very responsive."
After three weeks, hearing nothing further about the Abuse Team investigation, I phoned BellSouth's Atlanta corporate headquarters, which led to conversations between my lawyer and BellSouth's counsel. My only remote chance of getting the name, I learned, was to file a "John or Jane Doe" lawsuit against my "biographer." Major communications Internet companies are bound by federal privacy laws that protect the identity of their customers, even those who defame online. Only if a lawsuit resulted in a court subpoena would BellSouth give up the name.
--USATODAY.com
Do you see the ways wikipedia can just put up false information?
Yet, students still go there to find their facts or "net surfers" go there daily for updated news. This online encyclopedia is not as "factual" as they say they are. They attract users and have them donate so that they can "edit".
See here, I went on Wikipedia and the heading was this:
Welcome to Wikipedia,
the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit.
2,863,746 articles in English
The 2 keywords were bolded. Free?
Wikipedia is sustained by people like you. Please donate today.
That was above the heading.
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Fundraising?source=enwiki_02
Sure it's free but... how many really donate? Why would they donate? If people do not donate, how did Jimmy Wales keep wikipedia, such a large encyclopedia, up?
"Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge."
— Jimmy Wales, Founder of Wikipedia
Anyone can edit? Sure they can and that's why it led to false information!
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Introduction&action=edit
I could just type the most random things on that URL and it MAY still be accepted.
Please, wikipedia is full of lies.
Please do not think that this post is to discourage others to visit wikipedia because this is a personal blog and I am voicing my own opinions hence the first amendment in the Bill of Rights. Thank you for your time to read this.
--Yuki Ai
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