Fuck, you can't even trust Wikipedia

[delmul]

Firms accused of rewriting their entry on Wikipedia
A host of blue-chip companies have altered their entries on Wikipedia, the online encyclopaedia, in an attempt to cover up embarrassing episodes in their history.

The discovery was made by WikiScanner, a site that traces the source of changes to the world’s largest online reference work by matching edits - which, famously, can be made by anyone - to a database of the unique “IP addresses” of the computers that were used to make them.

Machines belonging to organisations including Wal-Mart, Disney, Sony, the Labour Party, the CIA and the Vatican, have been used to rewrite entries, it alleges. WikiScanner was developed by Virgil Griffith, 24, a researcher at the California Institute of Technology.
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/busi...icle2267778.ece

Program shows CIA behind Wikipedia entries
A new identification program on the site reveals that some of the most prolific contributors to Wikipedia are the CIA, the British Labour Party and the Vatican - and they are not just updating their own entries.

The Wikiscanner site shows the CIA has edited entries on many issues relating to the United States Government, including presidential biographies and descriptions of military operations.
http://abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/08/16/...m?section=world


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[h1s_l0rdsh1p]

No, this is exactly why you can trust Wikpedia.

They use tools like these to see if people of these agencies are changing things for THEIR interests, not to make sure history is correct.

[dondaz]

No, this is exactly why you can trust Wikpedia.

They use tools like these to see if people of these agencies are changing things for THEIR interests, not to make sure history is correct.

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[brians201]

How can anyone even think of trusting a site that anyone can put anything they like on !! ........ It is not an accredited Encylopaedia where entries are checked and verified .. any Tom, Dick or George B. can write or change anything they like ...... People need to remember that!
It is useful for general reference but never for a benchmark reference to actual fact.

[h1s_l0rdsh1p]

If you read the report, the guy who made it uses open source.

I trust open source because it relies on human trust aswell.

He found it, and told wikipedia. The same goes for wikipedia though, it's open source. It relies on human trust. Seeing these things work together like this is good. Because of this, honest people can easily catch shit like this. Because they are not doing this for money, they are doing it for the greater good.