WIKIPEDIA The Free Encyclopedia

**mikaztro** · September 10th, 2005 12:37 PM

Originally Posted by DoctorDoom

The thing that you should REALLY be concerned about in Wikipedia, are the INTELLIGENT GRAFFITI'S. Because they are very hard to catch.

Example, something like this is possible: "On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong walk on the moon followed by Michael Collins and together they planted the American flag near the Lunar Module." ---- when in fact, it was Edwin Aldrin who walked with Neil Armstrong on the moon. Michael Collins was up there in orbit and never landed on the moon.

These are the kind of graffitis that can easily find their way to Wikipedia because entries there are written by complete strangers whose credibility cannot be ascertained or verified. Unlike in Encyclopaedia Britannica.

That is why you cannot sue Wikipedia for false information.

Yup I agree and that's where people like you come-in. It is a free encylopedia and their main intention there is to bring back the info to the people where it really does belong. We as conscious readers can correct erroneous entries for that matter in a jiffy. By the way, graffitis can escape in the eyes of the ordinary readers but not to the arbitrators. Graffiti creators can do what they want in the site but the Wiki team will verify their authenticity, give propoer notice to the writter of such inadequate or sub-standard form of information. Their IPs are also logged for security purposes.

**mantoy** · September 12th, 2005 05:03 PM

the tagalog version:

http://tl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unang_Pahina

**EL Chicane** · September 24th, 2005 11:03 PM

Anak ng tinapay, pati PINOY BIG BROTHER nasa Wikipedia na rin. :twak:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinoy_Big_Brother

**EL Chicane** · October 2nd, 2005 01:01 AM

Can you tell if a Wikipedia article was written by a Pinoy? See below.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seona_Dancing

**DoctorDoom** · October 6th, 2005 02:59 AM

Here's another information driven website. Good for your kids' history lessons. Nice thing about this site is that it's multimedia-driven, not merely text-driven.

http://www.archive.org/

**DoctorDoom** · December 12th, 2005 10:21 PM

[SIZE=2]Man Apologizes After Fake Wikipedia Post[/SIZE]

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - A man who posted false information on an online encyclopedia linking a prominent journalist to the Kennedy assassinations says he was playing a trick on a co-worker.

Brian Chase, 38, ended up resigning from his job and apologizing to John Seigenthaler Sr., the former publisher of the Tennessean newspaper and founding editorial director of USA Today.

"I knew from the news that Mr. Seigenthaler was looking for who did it, and I did it, so I needed to let him know in particular that it wasn't anyone out to get him, that it was done as a joke that went horribly, horribly wrong," Chase was quoted as saying in Sunday editions of The Tennessean.

Chase said he didn't know the free Internet encyclopedia called Wikipedia was used as a serious reference tool.

The biography he posted, which has since been replaced, falsely stated that Seigenthaler was linked to the Kennedy assassinations and had lived in the Soviet Union from 1971 to 1984.

The entry motivated Seigenthaler to write an op-ed piece for USA Today blasting Wikipedia's credibility. He described himself as a close friend of Robert Kennedy and said he had worked with President Kennedy. He said "the most painful thing was to have them suggest that I was suspected of their assassination."

Seigenthaler said he doesn't plan to pursue legal action against Chase.

He also said he doesn't support more regulations of the Internet, but he said that he fears "Wikipedia is inviting it by its allowing irresponsible vandals to write anything they want about anybody."

Chase said he created the fake online biography in May as a gag to shock a co-worker who was familiar with the Seigenthaler family. He resigned as an operations manager at a Nashville delivery company as a result of the debacle.