Blog Wikipedia

I found the blog on wikipedia to be quite interesting. I didn't know at first that all the things on wikipedia were not true. I thought the information on the website came from reliable sources. But I was wrong!!! The wikipedia website is edited by the people that put the information on the website. And it was interesting to know that major corporations such as Walmart and Exxon Mobil change and edit the information on wikipedia all the time. So you never know if the information you are getting is actually factual. I don't see how a major corporation can just go to wikipedia and change the information to make them look like a great company when they can just go in and twist the facts for their benefit.

As Americans will we ever know the truth about these major corporations that post their information on such sites as wikipedia. Well I guess we can't believe everything we read on the internet. I have learned that Wikipedia should not be the only site you visit to find reliable resources.

Wikipedia is just basically an encyclopedia that can be edited by anyone who sees fit to edit the information. That is so lame. How in the world can a website that claims to be a free reliable source be edited by anyone who sees fit to edit the information? This does not make sense to me!!!!!! I need some answers because there will be many people out in the world who have not been informed of the wikipedia dilemma. Which is: YOU CAN NOT TRUST WIKIPEDIA!!!!! I want to know what a kid will do if you finds this wikipedia site which I know they will and they don't know any better to search another site and they get a book report that is totally not factual that child is going to wonder what went wrong.


The podcast about Virgil Griffith's Wikipedia Scanner was very interesting. I was amazed when they said that it is not illegal to edit the information on wikipedia. People can edit the information anonymously if they don't want people to know who they are. Griffith's wikipedia scanner was able to find out who changed the information and when by tracing the IP address of the computer. I think Griffith's idea was great. And it puts people who doctor the information on wikipedia on alert and may stop some from changing the information that is put on wikipedia. But there will always be ins and outs to any situation. These people who change the information on wikipedia will think of ways to manipulate the information without being traced. But when I listened to the podcast it said that it may make wikipedia better in the future. So I guess we all will just have to wait until that day comes.