There was a time when I trusted Wikipedia. Not anymore. After seeing several pages that were edited to promote something I realised how dumb it is to trust something that can be edited by millions of anonymous people.
It’s odd, really - if Wikipedia were a person or animal, we’d be hard-pressed to actually like it, given how untrustworthy it can be. But we do like it, and the site’s popularity gives some people all the more reason to toy with it.
Whether you’re looking up simple search terms like “dog” and “tree,” or a more complicated query like “computational fluid dynamics,” Wikipedia often shows up in Google’s top five results. This is extremely impressive. But as Rand Fishkin asks, “Why Edit Wikipedia Pages if There’s No Link Juice?”
Fishkin goes on to list seven answers to that rhetorical question. Depending on one’s point of view, the reasons may be clever - “reputation management” - or somewhat cruel - “to spite.” They’re all realistic, though, and are somewhat hard for Wikipedia’s administrators to guard against.
Wikipedia may be moving past the point where sensitive souls have to worry about encountering random rude words. Yet more subtle “Wiki-hacks” (to use Fishkin’s term) may be even more disruptive, since few people will notice and correct them.
Personally, I plan to visit and link to Wikipedia just as much as ever. It’s really very strange, though, how the site gets away with such things.
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Wikipedia is bad for humankind
WIKIPEDIA should be totally banned from major research institutions throughout the world for it provides the means for distortions and untruths to be put in print across the whole globe. This cannot be good for humankind as if people start to believe every word that appears in Wikipedia, they will get things wrong. It is as simple as that, but the consequences could be huge for economies and people.
If you wish to read more I suggest that you get a full insight into Wikipedia and visit http://www.thewif.org.uk/version2/nlett/class/main0.html
and go to the bottom of the page.
Wikipedia is run in reality by a bunch of overgrown kids who do not care about those who really count, people themselves.
Dr. David Hill
World Innovation Foundation
Bern, Swiss